Sermon to the Dark Sages.

[Monte Davis]

The "angry twistings" that flummoxed you most were verbatim  quotation.

Maybe we could start not recognizing you right away, and improve an extra
three weeks?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of alice wellintown
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 2:47 PM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Sermon to the Dark Sages.

After enduring Monte's angry twistings of my sentneces into his pretzilized
strawmen, and Joseph's ad hominum rants about the decline of the west, I've
given up.

See ya, as somebody you won't recognize when the group read of BE starts.

On 8/25/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The absurdity is obvious here, that is, trying to address those who 
> want something interesting said in a few words, paragraphs even, say, 
> all that has improved since the Reformation, about which millions of 
> volumes have been written, which we often allude to or reference or 
> provide links for, and those who will snipe at anything that is not in 
> final form, exhaustive, ready for peer review. So, the long silence of 
> former contributers who link us to the stories we find ourselves, 
> culled by others we read. There is something incestuous about the 
> P-List now. Something like flying kites on a windy crowded beach, like 
> fishing on an over-crowded charter boat, where lines are crossed and 
> the big one always gets away, the pool of prize money, safe with the 
> captains of the P-Industry.
>
> To listen to the likes of Monroe beg for a peep into a P-Industry 
> Advance copy is sad.
>
> On 8/25/13, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh. So, "Things R better than they used to be," is your point? This 
>> point is neither true nor false.  Specifics R everything, but your 
>> grand gestures R anything but.
>>
>> I don't mind long posts, just flinging cats by their tails to see 
>> where they cling.  I tire of wild cat chases.
>>
>> On Sunday, August 25, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>>
>>> Why are you do into keeping it short and simple? Down to brass tax.
>>> Get to the point? Bottom Line it for me. Long posts bother you.
>>>
>>> Consider too the overthrow of other authoritarian military regimes 
>>> in Latin America. Look at Chile! What of the dismantling of apartheid?
>>> The Fall of the communist system and the Berlin Wall.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Arab Sping!
>>>
>>> Of course, some of the euphoria  is ended, is waning. This is natural.
>>>
>>> Democracy has proven more difficult to achieve than tossing off the 
>>> old dictators.
>>>
>>>
>>> But the pessimism of P-L bothers me. Itz so down all the time. Like 
>>> a bunch of old hippies and new age freaks who need a good laugh, 
>>> some good sex or something.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/25/13, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> > Was that your point? Why didn't you just say so?  An awful lot of 
>>> > words wasted to say something so obvious.
>>> >
>>> > On Sunday, August 25, 2013, alice wellintown wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Is arguing for freedom of thought and criticism of the foolish 
>>> >> and ignorant assertion that ideas ancient and eastern, anything 
>>> >> but our "Western Abortion",  will better serve humanity corporate
propaganda?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>
>