Spam?

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Sep 22 19:57:27 CDT 2013


Curmudgeon Morris respects all reviews of BE, not equally, quibble...

Please carry on.  You start to make me feel Max's guilt...

On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On 9/21/13, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > BE feels like Spam in the P-list today.
>
> ... as likely the person who has posted the most (on Bleeding Edge or
> otherwise) here, do note, I've posted reviews  individually so they
> can be dealt with (or not) individually, and will thank the one person
> who's actually mentioned this has made things easier for them (it was
> meant in particular to do so, so ...).
>
> I thought my links on color (see my most recent post) might be
> helpful, as I've been stockpiling
> notes/instances/references/observations/interpretations/critical
> commentary/crossreferences/plain ol' shots in the dark/et al. in the
> archives for over  a decade and a half (night unto two) now, figuring,
> that's what the archives are for.
>
> Considering one could play Pynchon bingo w/ the 1st dozen or so pages
> of BE alone, I'm hoping being able to find textual precedents will
> (continue to) be of use.
>
> Pardon em if I'm occasionally chitchat, but one thing i appreciate
> here is the ability to converse like normal people; another is the
> sheer amount of information + other interesting, even useful, stuff.
>
> I'v met a few of you in person, even, + have ben glad to find yr all
> much easier to deal w/ in real life than I am.
>
> Meanwhile, me, i don't notice any particle volume of, well, anything,
> from anybody, on the List, in my e-mail in general, on Facebook,
> Twitter, Google+, et al.,  'cos even uring group read/flame wars/et
> al., I get so much OTHER stuff.  Me, I communicate far more online
> than I do even in person (and I've limited phone minutes, so ...)
>
> I've an entire universe I'm trying to keep track of, so ...
>
> Meanwhile, I thank Mark in particular (also, the Thomas Pynchon PL
> [Poland] facebook group, as well as others on + off list) for keeping
> me abreast of reviews et al.
>
> Otto Sell has been keeping a running tab:
>
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/edge/edgeindex.htm
>
> ... a few more dribbled down the lines to me today, but I'm sure
> they'll let up sometime, so ...
>
> ... so if y'all want me gone, me, I wouldn't want to be a member of a
> club that DIDN'T want me, so ...
>
> Maybe I oughtta simply unsubscribe now.  Send someone to let me know
> the verdict ...
>
> Meanwhile, if anyone takes offense to me wishing  a Happy Birthday to
> a couple of beloved literary characters, on the one hand, i'm sorry,
> but on the other ...
>
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