Very P: I salute Laura Kelber

[Mark Kohut]

who is one of the few women on the Plist. She predates me on it
but does not post as much as some. I see her as somehow Plist foundational,
in reality or in the ideal. I remember stuff she taught me.

I respected her simple just request not to crazedly post dozens of Ukraine
"news'
and opinion bits, because I know I went over the edge one early morning
so upset over falsehoods and lies and posted like a cereal killer. (sic)

So, couple-three posts re Ukraine things and done this morning, one
involving a Plister. Delete immediately
if a bother.

If you would like to get some more out-of-the-mainstream news and opinion
and feeling
about Russia's war on Ukraine just ask offline..I have a separate list of a
few Plisters who want that.

As Morris said, this is our world and the events are world-changing. The
whole world is watching. (not really, most don't really care)
Hundreds, soon thousands, are dying while we live securely.

I think we all agree Thomas Pynchon has plunged as deeply as he could into
'our world' in the past and in every book thru NYC (and the nation)
in *Bleeding Edge* and I will bet my screwed-in ass that he is watching.
"In the destructive element immerse" was Joe Conrad's
advice to writers and Thomas did not go into the Navy or Boeing because he
had to.

Back to the BE Read. Please more join. You will thank yourself.