List Problems? // brig pudding

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 4:18 AM, mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> I've never had to resub
>
> I only get copies of some of my own posts, and yet people reply to  
> some of the ones I never get -
> this happens to others too, I think

me for one . .

sometimes i've been in a state of what I call half-subscribed--I'll  
continue to get the p-list-postings of  others but nothing I post  
ever shows up.

this latter can be a blessing--stuff I have later regretted posting  
never sees the light  of day . . .
>
> I'll complain if they raise the subscription price (-;
>
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>
> It's true that in some places and times, Pynchon would have been  
> scorned in "polite circles" (speaking of words referring to social  
> groups, it's weird that the word "gentleman" describes the least  
> gentle class of men) for his treatment of Brigadier Pudding in  
> Gravity's Rainbow.

Yes.
>
> the notion of picturing a retired brigadier general with a mouthful  
> of shit is pretty radical...and yet, somehow pleasing (especially  
> in view of the "human waste" practiced by the organization he like  
> Moloch surmounted)...I suppose that particular pleasure is fairly  
> subversive.
>
> "What do you do with a general, when he stops being a  
> general?" (this doesn't mean I don't still like the movie "White  
> Christmas")
>
>
>
Elect him the American president


1. George Washington, Revolutionary War
2. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812
3. William Henry Harrison, War of 1812
4. Zachary Taylor, Mexican War
5. Franklin Pierce, Mexican War
6. Andrew Johnson, Civil War
7. Ulysses Simpson Grant, Civil War
8. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Civil War
9. James Abram Garfield, Civil War
10. Chester Allan Arthur, Civil War
11. Benjamin Harrison, Civil War
12. Dwight David Eisenhower, World War II 
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