http://pynchonwiki.com already under attack!

[Joe Allonby]

Just registered. I look forward to using it as a great resource to help me
understand the many cultural and scientific references in AtD as I read it.
I look forward to contributing in my small way (trabants are also poorly
made E.German cars, remittance men were European younger sons who were not
entitled to inherit land but received a stipend to get out of town etc.).

On 11/29/06, Jasper Fidget <jf at hatguild.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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