Archives & Wikis?

[alice wellintown]

As I search the Pynchon-l archives and the Wiki / Against the Day I'm
very impressed with the discussion and the reseach.
Thank you for all your hard work.
I've noticed that there is excellent research and commantary in the
P-L archives that is not on the Wiki.
Is there a reason for this?

For example,  a poem by Robert W. Service, "The Shooting of Dan
McGrew" is discussed in the P-L archives but is not included on the
Wiki.

To what Kieth sz, Mark K, and Mikebaily wrote, I  would add, Service
was a Bank clerk. AtD constantly challanges us to re-read ironies.
How can one read a violent pornographic scene with unemotional
detachment? How can one avoid the trap of a grim and humorous voice?
A cool voice describing a hot scene? A heated voices describing
nothing to heated about? A spriritual and ritualistic voice that sails
and sails and lifts and lifts us nowhere. Pynchon does this
constantly. He plays with the conventional scenes and chapter starts
and endings. It reads like the end of a Dickens chapter except it's
not. This ironic voice speaks with praise while it blames.

You took a fine time to leave me ...Traverse (pick one).

Of course, what is meant is that "it is [now, after the above ironic
statement] impossible to say just what I mean" (Prufrock Hamlet said
that).

Thank God the dogs can talk and thank God the author has a magic
lantern to cast his images upon a screen even if the images never say
exactly what he means.

Thank God he tells us that much and of this we can be certain: it is
impossible to say just wehat he means.