Ethical Diversions

[Dave Monroe]

Had Robt. read it, you KNOW he'd at least mount an
actual ARGUMENT with it.  I RESPECT him for tht, at
least, typically. But Robt. knows from snippy, so ...

And I suspect there's at least someone out there to
read every bit of Pynchoniana, even if it's only me,
the author, and his/her publisher, editor,
dissertation committee and/or mommy, so ...

Typically, though, again, it's generally considered at
least, well, necessary to have actually read something
before calling it "shit" or somesuch ...

Also, do note, you DON'T have to buy a copy yrself to
read it.  I didn't.  If yr local library, university,
public, whatever odesn't have it (or pretty much any
other book), many libraries can and will acquire a
copy for you via interlibrarl loan (ILL) programs ...

But maybe you oughtta direct yr complaints to Drs.
Krafft, Duyfhuizen and/or Tölölyan, who kindly
included a reference to that book (not to mention
pages upon pages of other works of possible interest)
in the most recent issue of Pynchon Notes ...

http://www2.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html

I've never seen an objection to a simple bibliographic
entry here before.  A recent work on the author of
note?  Quelle horreur!  Quelle sheesh, more like ...

But the shrillness with which even any mention of the
Holocaust vis a vis Gravity's Rainbow (or V., or ...)
is met here indicates a neurosis well worth
confronting as the opportunity rises.  Not to mention
the shrillness with which even the most harmless of my
posts is greeted by Certain Someones here ...

For the record, will also be working through ...

Hinds, Elizabeth Jan Wall, ed.
   The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon:
   Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern
   Observations.  Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006.

http://www.boydell.co.uk/www.camden-house.com/71133186.HTM

... this summer.  Mothers, lock up yr daughters ...

--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My God!  You actually expect anyone on this list
> would want to READ this shit (let alone BUY it for
> $85)?  Your snippet was just enough to prove that 
> it really is that G word, so don't get all snippy
> with Rob (who might actally HAVE read thebook at
> his University library (which are that only 
> places that would actually buy this kind of tome).
> 
> And I have no idea why you take these comments so
> personally (unless you are secretly the author of
> the book).

And yes, yes I am.  I am secretly Katalin Orban ...

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