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

[David Morris]

Mark!

Don't go changing.  You have become a P-list touchstone.  Yes, you are an
admitted fan-boy, so you are by nature an easy target.  But please keep it
up.

David Morris

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 5:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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