http://pynchonwiki.com already under attack!

[Jasper Fidget]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:28 -0500, Anville Azote wrote:

> First of all, Kinbote's commentary isn't "worse than useless".  His
> digressions on Zembla have blasted little to do with John Shade's
> Appalachia, but leaving aside the value of the Forward (which gives
> the reader their first brush with Shade and, in some respects, a more
> complete visual impression), the Commentary and Index provide a
> counterpart and complement to the 999 lines of the poem itself.  The
> book in its entirety is an artifice, deceptive and illuminating; if
> pynchonwiki.com produces anything like **Pale Fire,** its authors
> would have every right to be proud.
> 
I was merely referring to commentary that serves to promote a person's
personal agenda at the cost of twisting or ignoring the work itself.

[...]
> 
> If pynchonwiki is to be a going concern, it'll need mechanisms for
> keeping track of good content.  Somebody will also have to institute
> ground rules for keeping debate fair and dealing with the inevitable
> hotheads and trolls (trust me, no subject is too obscure to attract
> crackpottery).  Otherwise, we're just prayin' for that anarchist
> miracle.
> 
Exactly!  Imagine if every post to Pynchon-L were duplicated into
pynchonwiki.