Annoying Sub-meta-musings

[Keith]

I came to Pynchon via Gravity's Rainbow, which was found so offensive  
it was denied a Pulitzer, and which's National Book Award was  
recepted by Irwin C. Corey, so it has been surprising to me that the  
Pynchon list (moreso now than earlier) is dominated by rather prissy  
folks having more in common with the Pulitzer people than Irwin C.  
Corey. My god, people get in such a tizzy about alleged rudeness and  
negativity. We are discussing an author who dispenses imagery of  
slurping down turds and fucking damsels doing the four corners hokey  
pokey, and we get such a reaction to rather tame discourse. The  
exegesis here often seems more like a vasectomy or a lobotomy of this  
man's outrageous art.