Last windbaggy word on Roth, McEwan, & MalignD

[Lawrence Bryan]

Ah, lovely! This is definitely a saver in my invective file. "Fucked  
up little turd of a man." Nice. My spell checker doesn't like "turd".  
Weird. Shit is in, cunt is out. I wonder who decides.

Lawrence, just an observer from the sidelines


On Feb 23, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Carvill John wrote:

>
>
> 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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