The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?
Brock Vond
wilsonistrey at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 16:28:23 CDT 2008
refills soda and microwaves a fresh bag of popcorn...
...damn... i shoulda snuck in some twizzlers too.. F!
On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:14 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
> Oh, and sorry; I didn't refer to you as Henry--Information, Media,
> and Technology Consultant. Don't want to ruffle those feathers
> further.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malignd at aol.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 5:08 pm
> Subject: Re: The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?
>
> Gees, Henry, seem to have touched a nerve. You're the one who
> trivialized Roth as a series of shortcomings.
>
> What you wrote is a crock of shit.
> "What a crock of shit?" If you can read OBA, then why can't you
> read a simple
> email message without getting p's in a twist? I'm a big fan of
> Roth; been
> reading him particularly since the start of his Zuckerman books.
> His books are
> warm, and short, but deep, and they invariably make me chuckle with
> a tear in my
> eye.
>
> There's room for more than OBA, except in GR's parody of a land
> where there is
> only one of each stereotype. If you appreciate OBA at all, you
> should know that
> this is not an A or B world (except in politics)!
>
> What a crock of shit!? Grow up, and grow a pair! Read before you
> write, MD! I
> thought better of you.
>
> HENRY MU
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry <scuffling at gmail.com>
> To: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 4:50 pm
> Subject: RE: The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?
>
> "What a crock of shit?" If you can read OBA, then why can't you
> read a simple
> email message without getting p's in a twist? I'm a big fan of
> Roth; been
> reading him particularly since the start of his Zuckerman books.
> His books are
> warm, and short, but deep, and they invariably make me chuckle with
> a tear in my
> eye.
>
> There's room for more than OBA, except in GR's parody of a land
> where there is
> only one of each stereotype. If you appreciate OBA at all, you
> should know that
> this is not an A or B world (except in politics)!
>
> What a crock of shit!? Grow up, and grow a pair! Read before you
> write, MD! I
> thought better of you.
>
> HENRY MU
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
>
> --------------------------------
>
> From: knee-jerkin' fanboy malignd at aol.com
>
> What a crock of shit. Roth's last two and a half decades has been
> one long
> string of brilliance.
>
> From me, Henry:
>
> > Philip Roth? Constantly interviewed author of books concerned
> with up to no
> > more than three individuals, but ultimately always just one; an
> author whose
> > writings are never placed in times that are before his own
> personal time or
> > in alien geographies (never encyclopedic, and no encyclopedia
> required).
> > A-and his stories include elements of his life that he denies are
> > auto-biographical.
>
>
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