Say wha

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Prof Krafft,

I paraphrased an essay from a book that I could not post. It was exactly
what I wanted to post and in plain text and clear in itself.
It was the *notion itself *that I hoped would start conversation. Another
anticipated disappointment so it wasn't much of one.
Simple pump-priming as I wrote, not a full gush. But maybe
EVERYONE was preparing to jump in when the Read started.

Anyone who wants to know where I found the essay can write me offlist.
Dr. Kraft, I'll bet you already know or have it.

I am NOT wasting my time trying to scan and post or find links to essays
most won't read, as far as
anyone who cares about the Read and contributes, can tell.
 As I also wrote in plain text months ago, I am not the sucker leading this
probably doomed read.

I have learned (or relearned) from Robert Mahnke that a direct twitter post
appears garbled, but one sent to myself and resent can appear.
If that so annoys everyone, I'll stop them too.

I do not know how else to post a FACEBOOK picture than with the FACEBOOK
link.
I decided, in that instance to share the Italian cover of BLEEDING EDGE
with some on this list who are not on Facebook.
But, only a complaint and no one said Thanks, then the hell with it.
Plisters who want to keep learning interesting peripheral things
about Pynchon can and will. I'm sure a ton of newcomers have not read
Pynchon Notes much, if at all. I go back into them at odd moments.


Don't worry, all, I'll post less.
Better the Group Read, like political argument and engagement to clarify,
dies an early death, like another
Third Party candidate.


Unsent post:
Subject: Not P, not P at all--except for all the ways he, too, bickers with
us.

"You've got a lot of 'splainin' to do, Lucy"

Samuel Johnson: "Every man is entitled to his own opinions, and every other
man is
entitled to knock him down for them". ...(that universal use of 'man' in
history although he was one who had great female friends)

the way I remember it anyway, which to me means sometimes
one must argue against the lack of facts and reasoning.

Which might be 'insulting'. So it might be.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> I was perplexed by both of these messages from Mark Kohut in recent
> Pynchon-l digests. I went to the archive for help, hoping the subject
> lines (which are deleted from digests) would make things clearer, but
> there's actually even less there to go on. Maybe something has gone
> wrong with the archiving function?
>
> From: Mark Kohut
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 07:15:28 -0500
> Subject: Nix and NP really
> To: pynchon -l
>
> How about that Mason & Dixon, eh? All revved up?. This essay I read
> into during the 'rev your engines' time
>
> [_This essay_ refers to what, please? Presumably it is supposed to be
> useful for people preparing for the group read?]
>
> From: Mark Kohut
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:31:05 -0500
> Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - Pynchon
> To: pynchon -l
>
> [That's even less enlightening than the garbage-filled version in the
> digest. I've pleaded with Mark and others for years to send only
> plane-text messages to the list, not to assume everyone uses Facebook
> or Twitter, and to remember that subject lines no longer make it into
> the digests.]
>
> Some fun the group read is going to be at this rate. But it may at
> least be a welcome change from the nasty bickering and childish
> name-calling we've had to put up with lately.
>
> John
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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