ATD SPOILER p. 95

[pynchonoid]

--- Jasper Fidget <jf at hatguild.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 13:05 -0800, pynchonoid wrote:
> > The pynchowiki is also very much a work in
> progress,
> > and as such some kinks need to be worked out, no
> > doubt.  It's a good thing that some people are
> working
> > hard at that already, while a few folks just stand
> > back and start throwing rocks in response to the
> offer
> > of a resource and an opportunity to contribute --
> it
> > remains true, no good deed goes unpunished on
> > Pynchon-l. 
> > 
> I assume you're talking about me.  I'm not standing
> back and throwing
> rocks, I'm trying to help improve the quality of
> what could potentially
> be a great resource.  You made an entry into the
> wiki I didn't think
> belonged there.  

It's a wiki, you could change what I rote if you
disagree, or you could make a comment there. Instead,
for reasons I can only imagine, you choose to make
pynchon-l the place you attack the wiki.  If you want
to take issue with something I write, please do, I'm a
big boy and can handle myself.  But no need to trash
the wiki because you don't like something I wrote
there, and that's what your post was doing.

If you don't like what I wrote, you can act, you don't
have to stay in whining mode.  Here - I posted the
same comment here first -  or at the wiki.


>It made me worry about the fate of
> the project.  Now I
> see you have meliorated your comment and I'm less
> concerned.
> 

Generous of you, pardner.  I realized some folks need
things spelled out in a very simple way, otherwise
they don't seem to be able to handle much nuance. I
forget that p-list S.O.P. calls for people like you to
immediately start exaggerating and mischaracterizing
just because that's the thing to do on the p-list. 
So, when I suggested that, in describing a character
in an Anarchist family who dreams of blowing up
himself and others with a bomb, that ATD might
possibly be speaking to the world in which we live as
well as writing about the time period in which its
characters live, that calls for a braindead insult - a
"worthless" interpretation I think was the label -
instead of picking up the thread and talking about it,
in agreement or disagreement, taking it in a new
direction, etc. None of that happens when you step in
and dump on what was, after all, a comment intended to
promote thought and discussion, not to close it off.


We'll see if you have anything to add to the wiki, or
if you just keep criticizing it here in pynchon-l,
that's going to be pretty easy to spot.  




 
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