Conservative Cornellians

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I read it as sarcasm - from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 27, 2012 12:24 PM
>To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Conservative Cornellians
>
>Who gives a shit about anything else in the mind or mouth of someone
>thankful for Ann Coulter, vile homunculous she.
>
>On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dave Monroe
><against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Referring to conservative Cornellians (Wolfowitz is a 1965 Cornell
>> graduate in mathematics), Corn showed his familiarity with university
>> alumni when he said: "I was accepted at Cornell and nearly attended.
>> Thank you for giving us both Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter."
>>
>> http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/04/9.23.04/Corn-Lowry_debate.html
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93524
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0409&msg=93553
>>
>> Is this Corn calling Pynchon conservative ... or is the writer simply
>> assuming he is...
>>
>> The ur-text isn't clear enough to provide an answer. "Referring to
>> conservative Cornellians" is a clumsy, ambiguous transition. My guess
>> is that David Corn intended "Thank you for giving us [alumni as
>> different as] Thomas Pynchon and Ann Coulter," and Segelken (the
>> Cornell Chronicle reporter) was too busy tracking the political
>> ping-pong to catch it
>>
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114628