An Old Hand, Back for the New Ride

[Will Layman]

Hey, Foax!

I've been off and on the list a bunch of times since -- SHIT! -- 1994  
or so.  With AtD knocking at our door, I had to sign back on.

To my old friends Paul Mackin, DaveMarc, Henry Mu and others, HOWDY  
PARDNERS.

If I'd been around more the last five years, I surely would have said  
a bunch of inflammatory stuff (like, uh, how could ANYONE think that  
Japan interview was authentic?) and I surely would have written a  
whole bunch about jazz, and I'm pretty sure I would have stuck up for  
INFINITE JEST, because someone is always attacking it, and I probably  
would have mentioned that I did read THE CLOUD ATLAS but it just kind  
of bored me after a while, despite its formal brilliance.

And I would have said that the best thing in my library is a  
paperback copy of V., made special by something I'm not sure even I  
believe is real, plus first printing hardcover AND softcover GRs --  
the best.

Now, somebody:  piss me off!

-- Will Layman, DC Area Pynchoniac