20,000 emails down...

[Michael Bailey]

Where to begin, that is probably what we are wondering...
Alice Wellinton appeared and dazzled us with erudition and opinionation,
anti IV ("it's a piece of crap") but high on Secret Integration and Slow
Learner preface, also prone to bring Bartleby up in a thought provoking
way...only bowing out recently; Fiona seems to be angling for a similar
spot, but she actually likes the new title.
Glenn Scheper joined Toastmasters after a near death experience, lost his
software engineering job and stopped posting, he is missed though is on
Linked in as a tv producer (infomercials?) so, alive and well at least.
Dave Monroe's library gig was downsized but he carries on valiantly dj'ing
and supplying amazing links.  Bekah is retired, with more time for reading.
Laura Kelber tried to unsubscribe, but just when she thought she was out...
well, you know...
John Carvill isn't wild about the new book but still has some interesting
thoughts.  his website oomska.co.uk has contributions from several plisters
including myself but the standout piece imho is his writing on Annie
Hall...Mark Kohut reread all of Shakespeare, and Against the Day.  Also I
think he went to the G10 concert, er, meeting in Baltimore or
someplace...jbor has been quiet and is missed.  Shortly before leaving he
mentioned having read the entire plist archive to that point, hope it
didn't cause him distress...robin landseadel took a hiatus to focus on
yantras and tarot card paintings, very nice ones at that...he's a "yea"
vote for the new novel although I think he liked IV better...Joseph Tracy
deplores what appears to be rampant acceptance of capitalism in BE yet
perhaps will agree with the excoriation of Rios Montt therein, at least.
Monte shared some interesting info recently, pursuant to the ongoing
paranoia/conspiracy themes.
I could go on and on...oops, I think I already have...anyone else want to
help bring Mr Gentle into the ongoing current?
On Nov 14, 2013 3:37 PM, "David Gentle" <gentle_family at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> So, during the run up it IV I stopped reading the list. The idea being to
> read the book first and then start reading the backlog of messages. By the
> time I got a copy of IV and read it I had 20000 emails "marked as unread".
> I've sporadicaly tried to catch up but didn't make much progress until the
> last wekk when I just went through all of them. Many I ignored but others I
> read.
> Obviously there are some things I missed on the wasy through them.
> Anything interesting happen in the last few years?
>
> David Gentle
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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