Annoying Sub-meta-musings

[Paul Mackin]

On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Keith wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, where did all these friggin' list nannies come from?

P.