P defends V. ...

[Robin Landseadel]

Or you could gather together the materials yourself and make the  
argument yourself.

Don't give the Bartleby argument—if you were really sincere, you'd be  
silent by now.

I have every good reason to doubt that you are a college instructor,

You're just too full of it.


On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:23 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> you could read hawthorne's prefaces, i posted them--he defines the
> ameican romance in each preface--the one to hsg is the best. you could
> read that list from twain i posted. you could read chase. i posted and
> monroe posted from chase. you could read the stuff i posted from on
> native ground or from edmunnd wilson, on romance. you could read the
> book on teaching pynchon, wherein the author discusses chase. you
> could take a course in american literatre, might help you understand
> pynchon. but you prefer not to. you could read bartleby. btw, my hands
> and my mind are like bartelby's eyes. my eyes too, soon will be
> miltonic, but i doubt its just from reading...my dad has bad eyes too,
> but then, he reads as much as me...so only He who walks the waves
> knows and since i'm lonely, i'm goin out there now to try to catch a
> few lefts.
>
> seeya