Not Waving, Not Drowning, but Sinking (with increasing speed!)

[kelber at mindspring.com]

No hard feelings.  You're way ahead of the game - a lot of signed-up hosts end up being no shows, without so much as a "my dog ate it" excuse.  We'll all enjoy your postings whenever they come.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Emma Wrigley <ecwrigley at excite.co.uk>
>Sent: Jun 17, 2010 10:37 AM
>To: richard.romeo at gmail.com
>Cc: alicewellintown at gmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Not Waving, Not Drowning, but Sinking (with increasing speed!)
>
>Okay, having got 10 minutes at my email, I am now officially 120 emails
>behind on the VRead. I start a new work contract next week and am having
>serious doubts about my ability time-wise (the intellectual doubts will
>come later, after I've read and replied to aforementioned emails) to
>successfully host chapter 12; especially as I am moving in September,
>which will leave me internet-free for a couple of weeks at the very
>least. The main issue may be my inability to write cohesively in
>relation to what has come before. I don't want to be a party-wrecker
>come the time and let everyone down with my incoherent ramblings. Is
>there anyone else out there who feels that they would have the time to
>host it? If not, then you shall be the proud recipients of said
>ramblings. I plead your forgiveness in advance. If I can't even manage
>that, please feel free to put me in stocks and hurl rotten fruit and
>vegetables at me.
>
>Right, I must go read emails while I have the chance.
>
>Yours humbly,
>Emma the Skiver
>
><-----Original Message-----> 
>>From: rich [richard.romeo at gmail.com]
>>Sent: 17/6/2010 2:52:08 PM
>>To: alicewellintown at gmail.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: V-2nd, ongoing profanity
>>
>>wow, capt bringdown
>>or maybe the Pyncho is capt bringdown. V. is a pretty humorless, inert
>>piece of wonder. easy to love when you're young, horny, a few lit clit
>>classes not to mention a bit of newly discovered and welcomed femdom
>>under yr belt
>>i'm so very glad all those cute boys grew up
>>(keep it if not bouncing at least cumming)
>>
>>faery blessings mistress
>>
>>rich
>>
>>On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:28 AM, alice wellintown
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If every night is the Eve of Christ's birth, when is Christ's birth 
>>celebrated?
>>> If the first coming is not celebrated, will there be a second,
>and/or
>>> need we fear the rough beast who slouches toward Bethlehem?
>>> Unlike Dante's Beatrice or F. Scott Fitzgerald's (This Side of
>>> Paradise), V.'s Beatrice, like every night--even if it's Christmas
>>> Eve, is like all the rest. The Christ narrative, the Devine Comedy,
>>> and the Mother & Child narrative is subjected to the V.. Like the
>>> Baedekers at Gatsby's Party:
>>> "How do you feel, Miss Baedeker?"
>>> The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my
>>> shoulder. At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes.
>>> "Wha'?"
>>>
>>> The Beatrice Barmaids are mass produced products of a conusmer
>>> narrative; Daisy has run Myrtle down with Gatsby's automobile. The
>>> Virgin spills her blood, her milk, her enormous vitality, into the
>>> Valley of Ashes, the Wasteland.
>>>
>>> Forget Fire and Ice, Frost.
>>> This is the way the world ends
>>> this is the way the world ends
>>> this is the way the world ends
>>> not with a birth,
>>> but eruction.
>>>
>>.
>>