Last windbaggy word on Roth, McEwan, & MalignD

[Carvill John]

Ok, I'll bite.
 
Objectively speaking, I am a pompous gasbag? Well I don't know how *you* can label *me* pompous - the words 'pot' and 'kettle' spring to mind - but surely your use of 'objective' here is, in iteself, farily subjective? Otherwise, I could say to you something along these lines: Objectively speaking, you are a whiny little cunt, who wouldn't dare to talk to me in person the way you do online, so why should I take your attacks seriously? 
 
Maybe I am a gasbag, I dunno, that's for others to judge, but it doesn't feel like I post to this list very often, or at much length. I don't think you do either, these days, do you? Of course, your posts are all about negativity and cowardly personal attacks. The post which caused you to leap up and attack me, was something I said about Thomas Pynchon, and another author, and the way American post-war literature is talked about in the English press, i.e. here where I live, and my frustration over the fact that they laud to the skies writers such as Roth (who I like a lot) and Updike (who I'm not so keen on, Rabbit books aside), while often failing to even mention, never mind laud, Pynchon, who I consider to be *at least* as worthy of veneration as those guys. In other words, I was posting about Pynchon. You were just sniping at me. 
 
And you got Roth's age wrong, as well as the title of his recent book. It's 'Exit Ghost', not 'Enter Ghost'. And it was crap.

You can carry on and attack me again if you like, I promise I won't even read it, never mind respond. You're like the Gollum of the P-list. You are - objectively speaking, natch - a fucked up little turd of a man.
 
 
 
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:39:25 -0500
From: malignd at aol.com
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #6673
You post to the list, I post to the list.  I rarely post people 
personally.
And I suppose it is ad hominem but, objectively speaking, you are a 
pompous gas bag.
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