An Old Hand, Back for the New Ride

[Paul Mackin]

HI Will

Welcome back. We're still here. It's always le meme chose all over  
again as they say. Yes, I remember well how Infinite Jest brought  
the  p-list to life for a few weeks, then you or  someone spun it   
off into the Wallace List.  Hope ATD will not disappoint.

P.



On Sep 26, 2006, at 6:53 PM, Will Layman wrote:

> 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