Fwd: A cheeping comes across the P-List...

[David Morris]

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From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: A cheeping comes across the P-List...
To: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>


Doug Millison loved to be hated here.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:20 AM Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> There were a number of flame wars. I remember Christine Karatnytsky posting
> that she was putting on her flame-proofs, but I don't remember what any of
> them were about.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Henry Musikar
> CISSP
> *( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)*
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:05 AM Allen Ruch <quail at shipwrecklibrary.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello P-Listers!
> >
> > My name is Allen, though I usually post online by my nickname, Quail. I
> > used to be a Pynchon Lister way back in the day…uh, going on twenty years
> > ago? Perhaps David and Heikki may remember me, or at least remember my
> > flame wars with Doug M. Along with my flappy-headed Canadian partner
> Larry
> > Daw, I ran Spermatikos Logos, a Pynchon site, part of a larger literary
> > endeavor called “The Modern Word.” Due to a long list of woes that began
> > with the dot-com crash, the site went under around 2006. Fortunately, a
> few
> > things have changed, and I’ve been able to resurrect Spermatikos Logos
> > recently, along with the help of a few friends. There’s still a LOT of
> work
> > to do to update the site, but it’s nice to be back. I even hear The Man
> > wrote one or two novels in the meantime—what wazzit, “Inherent Lebowski?”
> > maybe “Blinking Edge?” “The Nix?”
> >
> > Anyway, getting back into Pynchon made me want to rejoin the Pynchon List
> > again, so…here I am!
> >
> > I know I’ve been gone for a long, long time; so I’ll probably lurk
> > politely for a spell to get the lay of the land. But I just wanted to say
> > “hello,” as I see some familiar names in my in-box!
> >
> > —Quail
> >
> > PS: Can one politely lurk? Or is lurking, like, intrinsically polite?
> Like
> > the polite version of stalking?
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