Jeez Louise

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> How easy your mind is boggled.
>
> It's my corrupted noggin that trolld is pointing to.
>
>>> My point is simply that treating Pynchon as beyond criticism and
>>> comparison is of little benefit to anyone or anything.  You want this list
>>> to be a fan club.  I don't.
>>
>> A lotta fans belong to it.
>>
>> Being a Pynchon fan doesn't meaning you necessarily think he's the heavy
>> weight champion of the world for novelists.
>>
>> It just means he's got something you like a lot.
>>
>>
>> P
>
> FWIW, Proust is my all-time heavyweight champion novelist of the world. It's
> just that Pynchon is the most amusing major novelist I'm aware of. Let's
> face it, milk doesn't shoot through you nose while reading Swann's Way but
> it might while you're reading certain passages in Gravity's Rainbow.

Pynchon is funny but don't Dr. Cottard's inappropriate outbursts leave
you in the aisle as well.


>
> And, yeah---this is a great place for diversions, misdirections and brownie
> recipes. Not to mention candy drills . . .
>

It's a veritable all things to all people.

And it's never gonna stop.

Viva the p-list and all its various and sundry types.

I wish someone would draw up a list of the various approaches to
p-list participation people choose to follow--it'd be a lot of fun.

P