Restatement of Plist '"LIKE"--OK, LOVE--' and my reasons for posting.

[Mark Kohut]

Even though the Plist can't finish a Group Read any longer; even though
hardly anyone but me posts on rereading impressions and things noticed;
even though many postings are not about anything Pynchon (my "failure" here
too--but a wonderful community of anarchic dancing under the bridge).

I know of some Plisters general  book interest and interest in found
connections to connections of Pynchon influences and themes
and sometimes cannot quite help myself by sending. The responses can be
unpredictable and illuminating. Perhaps it annoys many who
say nothing. Dunno.

If enough tell me they are a waste of time--as I was once told I have
brought down the quality of the list from the olden days--
I will stop them. The posts are fewer.

I try to respect the difficulty in the way posts appear in the archives. I
moved my email account to this one because the other
seemed to appear as gibberish. I have taken the time to explain or repeat
in regular typing when asked.
I have sometimes just posted what appears in other social media but
sometimes when it
seemed more Pynchon-important than something else, I have preemptively
recopied. (Hey, I've learned how to
use SIRI, who has a lot to learn re typing.)

Some still complain about FB and Twitter posts. So it goes. If you cannot
read them or do not want to, then
imagine I have not sent them. I am not going to take the time, when Pynchon
is there to be reread, to redo-- esp since
the Plist response rate to these kinds of posts would lead any survey taker
into bankruptcy. So, also, It goes.

WHAT I POST AND WHY, just fyi.
Smart Pynchon citations and mentions, I hope. (That is, I hope they are the
smart ones).
Pynchon's vision, as I can see it and believe it (I hope more correctly
than delusionally) coats my mind and I often see
that vision in the real world, I think. To me, great literature MUST
connect to that world deeply and phenomenologically or it is nothing but
crossword puzzles
and rhetoric, in effect. Or shallow. I am especially fond of posting about
writers and books which seem to have
absorbed Pynchon's influences, since I also believe that, in general, it is
the best writers who know the genius of
the great writers and keep them alive in the present and thereby in history
this way. (There is a book or two about this which shaped my view)
I sometimes post impressions of readings. I sometimes post supposed
parallels and possible influences--as we lifers
know of them and of some new ones,-- (always a leap of supposing here so
often just Kute Korrespondences, I'm sure, raised
in status--in my own positively paranoid mind. (The paranoia of
associationism).

Dear Plist, although I almost did, I can't quit you, baby. Yet.