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

[Mark Thibodeau]

Stick around chum!

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:30 AM Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Honestly Mark, I love your input, your emails of everything, your insight
> and quirky comments, your intellectual debate. Please don't stop. I am
> clearly a silent plister, which I should change. Your email has given me
> pause and I will, with renewed vigour, join in the conversation.
>
> Emma/Jemmy
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 12:26 AM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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