Manson Cult; was Golden Fang

[Keith]

His ineptness is intentional, ironic, and satiric......not to mention  
illustrative of, but not actually, dumb.

On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:35 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

Your proposed persona of College lit professor is undermined by  
several things, not least of which is your inability to correctly  
parse the word roots and spelling of the word which you write as  
"underminded". This form would not even pass a spell check, and shows  
a basic ineptness with language.

> Just to confirm that my readings are as dumb and as brazen as you all
> claim; note that I was the only reader here who read Sphere as a
> negative character, treated with ironic and satiric langauge,
> subjected to harsh critique. And, this reading was advanced long
> before the letters were available. Moreover, the claims of  "Protest"
> novel are underminded by Pynchon's correspondances.