The Anti-Pynchon Author of Note?

[Natália Maranca]

There are more important things to quarrel about. Football, for instance.

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Brock Vond <wilsonistrey at gmail.com> wrote:

> refills soda and microwaves a fresh bag of popcorn...
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> ...damn... i shoulda snuck in some twizzlers too.. F!
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> On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:14 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:
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> Oh, and sorry;  I didn't refer to you as Henry--Information, Media, and
> Technology Consultant.  Don't want to ruffle those feathers further.
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> -----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
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> -----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
>
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> From: knee-jerkin' fanboy malignd at aol.com
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> What a crock of shit.  Roth's last two and a half decades has been one long
> string of brilliance.
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> From me, Henry:
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> > 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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