Top 10 Reasons Why AtD Sucks
Ray Easton
kraimie at kraimie.net
Thu Jun 21 12:11:46 CDT 2007
On Thursday, Jun 21, 2007, at 11:29 US/Central, Daniel Harper wrote:
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> On 6/21/07, Henry Winkler <rushm0r3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 10. The title.
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> What's wrong with the title? It's obscure, evocative, multilingual
> perhaps... much like Pynchon's works in general, and ATD in
> particular.
...
> 1. The Chums of Chance.
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> What's wrong with them? Sure, they're a hokey literary device, but all
> of Pynchon's works use hokey literary devices as intentional nudges to
> the audience that this is a fictional world.
>
> Your trolling is not as entertaining as you think it is.
>
> --Daniel
You took something with the title of Henry's post seriously enough to
compose a point by point reply to it? Being just a teensy-weensy bit
defensive, aren't we?
BTW, I'd call Henry's posts "acts of provocation" rather than trolling.
Ray
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