Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.'

[Emma Wrigley]

I'm slowly working my way through 7 pages of emails (40 down, 61 to go)
that I have missed since the Read started and have finally come across
this. Huzzah I say!! I await with joyous anticipation an attack on my
sex life (or lack thereof) and body odours (or of course the lack... -
she says optimistically), obscure references to esoteric and tedious
books, and generally a prolonged thread-crap. Glad someone beat me to
it.

Huzzah again. Encore!
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Robin Landseadel [robinlandseadel at comcast.net]
>Sent: 11/6/2010 1:23:59 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Grasping for V. Group Read. Thomas Pynchon: 'I still don't
even 
>know for sure what a tendril is.'
>
>My responses will consist mainly of cheap potshots, political 
>broadsides having zero relevance to the passage in question, fart 
>jokes, ad hominem attacks on a given P-lister's pathetic sex life and 
>malignant bodily odors, flames both bellicose and sophomoric, obscure 
>references to books no one really wants to read, genealogical charts 
>designed by Professor Irwin Corey and musicological references 
>provided by Lord Buckley. There will be a forty-page essay [with 
>footnotes] on nose-picking as signifier in TRP's early work that 
>expresses avuncular concern as to why the poor boy feels the need to 
>gross us out in the first place. In general, this will be one 
>prolonged thread-crap, intended to divert from any potential deeper 
>reading of the text, generally sounding like the work of a petulant 14 
>year old with the soul of "Ted" Kaczynski. I will do everything in my 
>power to ram the S.S. P-List into the Santa Monica Pier during a taco- 
>eating contest in the rain.
>
>No need to thank me in advance.
>.
> 
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