that Morris guy, and you, Bailey

[Keith Davis]

Right on, man! (You can quote me if you like...)
On Dec 24, 2012 9:47 AM, "Michael Bailey" <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Madeleine Maudlin wrote:
>
>> Clueless pranksters, what are you about?
>>
>> Besides sheer idiocy, what have you in you>
>>
>>
>  both of us ( i surmise) have an admiration for at least some of the works
> of Thomas Pynchon
>
> as for me:
>
> a) no breakfast yet, but about to make coffee
> b) wondering if i was going to get a call from Ms Melanie Jackson after
> responding to the question about ghostwriting, if the original question was
> a delicate feeler from IG Pynchon (-;
> c) some writers license their worlds and characters - especially in the sf
> world...like a workshop of somebody like Paul Revere, he didn't personally
> make every plate, spoon or whatever...is that a helpful thought?
>
> personally i think the p. genes are good ones so that between his greater
> wisdom and experience and quite likely a spry physiology he's still one of
> the better sources of good prose on the planet, and he ought to not look
> for any kind of ghost, even one as talented and obscure as myself (although
> he or his factotum is welcome to mail me off list for plot ideas or
> criticism of any works in progress, and i'll be glad to oblige (big chuckle
> here)), but, just churn out whatever the heck he feels like himself.  did
> he wonder what james wood would say when he wrote gr?  heck no.  a-and that
> worked out!
>
> frickin' 25, 29, maybe 44 volumes of Doc Sportello adventures (i'd buy
> them all) - he could do that, and the critics?  Well, have intercourse with
> them if they fail to see the humor.
>
>
> --
> - where the bee slurps, there slurp I
>
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