Say wha

[Mark Kohut]

Dear Dr. Krafft,

I am sorry, but I have to repeat.  I posted exactly what I posted exactly
as I wanted to. In the right kind of text.
You can fault me for what I did not take--waste--the time to do. So it
goes.

>From my simple-minded, reaching out perspective offering those who CARE
enough to ask me how to get it is a good thing,
not marble-hoarding

I have an interlibrary loan book and to even mention it here,-- it already
has been by others--,
will make everyone feel so complacent, imho, that they don't have to *think
about *and talk about the simple
notion of movement in M & D. ...This is our Group Read, if we participate
in it as we should in our
public democracy, and not just make a mental note to read Hinds' book. The
Group Read
version of the Purity Test, analogously.

I think that what I post re Pynchon, including lots of ways his vision
informs my mind, perceptions and,
I think, the world, does inform. Otherwise I would not post it. If others
don't, they can tell me so.

If I ever learned that subject lines did not appear in the archives, I long
forgot it. Sorry.
I thought the NOT P subject guideline, which I honor, was part of that
contextualizing.
I provide context often in a subject lede meant to entice, make laugh,
hook re what I post.

I provided the words to the Facebook link in the subject line. I said it
was the cover of the Italian edition of Bleeding Edge.
This context was also to the left---I CHECKED THAT when I looked at it---of
the picture when opened on my computer.
Lots of technological differences between machines, I understand, as we
know even from the Plist software differences.

Since I post too much and forever, I will forgive you suggesting I might
'take my marbles' and go home. As
I also wrote a bit ago, I am not masturbating verbally into the Group Read
alone like the protagonist of The Master--
Anderson's allusive V. (that scene is sea-changed from the end of V, I am
convinced, and yo-yoing in general.

Can't EVERYONE see I want real discussion on this list?; has any lurker
suspected that my recent aggressive online political arguing, which I
haven't been doing much at all,
besides a desire to finally whack-down wrong opinions if I can -- now might
ALSO be an attempt
to get us all riled up for the Read? (Once I say that, it loses all its
hidden strength.)

No Win Mark



On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
wrote:

> Hey, maybe if I spelled "plain text" correctly, the problem would be
> solved--sorry!
>
> Mark, I may well know of the essay you say you alluded to, but how can
> I tell if you don't say even what that essay is, much less where it
> came from? What is the "could not post" about a citation? You say you
> want to be informative: I applaud that as far as it goes and deplore
> how short the actuality  often falls.
>
> Twitter posts are annoying when they don't actually inform. As I've
> pointed out repeatedly, subject lines don't appear in digests anymore.
> I hope you'll care enough about what you say you want to accomplish to
> provide some clear context rather than get sore, take your marbles and
> go home. And when you post a Facebook link, can't you include a
> comment or description--enough of a pointer so that people who avoid
> social media can search for other ways to get the image or whatever?
> Isn't it easy enough to say "Here's an image of the cover of the
> Italian Bleeding Edge"? In that case, I'd be grateful for having
> learned something interesting (and not at all periferal); otherwise,
> the post is just a frustrating taunt.
>
> John
>
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