ATD: cover seal

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:31 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

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>> And Malign should really have his serotonin levels
>> checked. I think he's a quart low.
>
> When you figure that this character is probably one of
> the regular Pynchon-l participants afraid to speak in
> this mode except hiding behind that fake name, an
> intervention might be the best thing, after all this
> is one of our "friends", somebody who joins us here as
> we help each other to deepen our understanding of a
> favored author.  Of course that begs the question, why
> would a friend talk trash the way this person does.
> The good news is that, like Slothrop's family yielding
> to entropy over the generations, the current Malign is
> a watered-down version of the previous holder of that
> name, who was a pale imitation of the notorious
> Mittelwerke prior to that.
>
> This one can barely get it together to complain about
> some imaginary p-listers who fail to read Pynchon
> critically, or who fail to trash his novels enough, or
> whatever it is that boring bellyachin' is all about.
> Pathetic, really.  "Tits on a billy goat" doesn't
> begin to capture the useless nature of this person's
> project.

MalignD would seem to be correct about one thing . . .