Well I just reread Vineland and the news is still bad...

[Ray Easton]

On Tuesday, Jun 12, 2007, at 15:18 US/Central, Dustin Iler wrote:

> Now, if you haven't reached that part of the novel, then you aren't 
> reading the same book as me, or others who have managed to get there. 
> All I can say is keep on reading, and back your claims up with some 
> reading, otherwise it appears---at least from my computer 
> screen---like I'm reading the compositions of an illiterate armed only 
> with no sense and a keyboard.

It would not have occur to me to call you names because you find AtD 
brilliant.  It would not occur to me to say that you have no literary 
taste or sense because your view of this novel differs from mine.  I 
guess my comment about arguing with Catholics was apropos after all.

But since you find name-calling an appropriate mode of discussion... I 
have read the entire fucking thing, you idiot!

Ray