Conservative Cornellians

[Mark Kohut]

Corn was being ironic, sarcastic in mentioning Ann Coulter...sorta will wonders (from Cornell) never cease.
 
Corn's politics are very close to .....many of us on this list, maybe even you David Morris, but I won't speak for you.
I read him....
 

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 From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:24 PM
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
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