ATD: cover seal

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:45 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> "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 . . ."
>
> Whatever. Just for the record, my handle is my real name. I can see  
> flaws in all of Pynchon's books (haven't really been completely  
> convinced with "Mason & Dixon", though there are numerous passages  
> in that grand experiment that I love), but that's really beside the  
> point, isn't it? If MalignD can't experience pleasure, that's  
> really not my problem. That he boasts of his dysphoria, that's his  
> problem, isn't it?


Some of  the old Pynchon schtick will seem pretty shopworn if carried  
over into AtD.

Surely he realizes this.

Still, we're all a little jittery.

P.