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

[Smoke Teff]

If I had my way, Mark, you would continue posting just as you do. I
can't be the only person here who has trouble imagining what the Plist
would actually be without your contributions--and who regrets not
making more of their own.

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 7:12 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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