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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:01:59 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Tim:
> > Similarly, I don't find the oft-repeated "liguistic [sic]" the
"childish"
> > item Mr. Morris would like us to believe. In his post, Dmitri is making
> > obvious reference to the paradox of assessing VN's linguistic
> > skills without
> > attention to one's own, a turn of irony that seems to perhaps escape
some
> > folks.
>
> Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Somewhat ridiculously, David Morris suggests that his assessment of VN's
work
> shouldn't incur the sort of reaction it does from N-listers, and likewise
> suggests that N-listers, whom he deems "worshippers" of Nabokov, are
somehow
> insecure by "bristling" at the mention of anything less than laudatory
toward
> their author.
>
> Certain N-Listers have expressed this very "ridiculous" (and patently
obvious)
> idea in their own forum: Dimitri is a petulant defender of his father's
> reputation to the detriment of the "forum" of the N-List.
>
> > Similarly, I don't find the oft-repeated "liguistic [sic]" the
"childish"
> item Mr. Morris would like us to believe. In his post, Dmitri is making
> obvious reference to the paradox of assessing VN's linguistic skills
without
> attention to one's own, a turn of irony that seems to perhaps escape some
> folks.
>
> A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob), and it is again a
patently
> obvious cheap and childish shot aimed to denigrate my expressed opinion.
BTW,
> I'm not an author (nor a professor), just a reader with an opinion.
>
> > While many of us on the P-list may not adore everything P's written,
it's
> pretty safe to assume that if someone came into this forum and expressed
"pale
> admiration" for, say, GR, [yada, yada, yada]
>
> Which is why I didn't express it on the N-List. The N-List voluntarily
signed
> on to the P-List.
>
> David Morris
>
> __________________________________
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:17:45 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
>
> Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings quoted above come from
> Dmitri's response to David...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Monroe <monrovius@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Talk about yr gateway drugs ...
>
> - --- David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > The N-List voluntarily signed on to the P-List.
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Monroe <monrovius@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> To quote Nelson Mundt ...
>
> - --- Scott Badger <lupine@ncia.net> wrote:
> > > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
> >
> > Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings
> > quoted above come from Dmitri's response to David...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:07:48 +0000
> From: dedalus204@comcast.net
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Morris:
>
> > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob),
>
>
> Typical schoolyard stuff. You obviously suffer from the same
"childishness" of
> which you accuse others.
>
> Grow up, or leave.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> A Boob Man
> >
> > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob), and it is again a
patently
> > obvious cheap and childish shot aimed to denigrate my expressed opinion.
BTW,
> > I'm not an author (nor a professor), just a reader with an opinion.
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- Scott Badger <lupine@ncia.net> wrote:
> > > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
> >
> > Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings quoted above come
from
> Dmitri's response to David...
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I'd missed your barb...
>
> DM
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- dedalus204@comcast.net wrote:
> > Morris:
> > > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob),
> >
> > Typical schoolyard stuff. You obviously suffer from the same
"childishness"
> of which you accuse others.
> >
> > Grow up, or leave.
>
> Lighten up, or...
>
> DM
>
>
> __________________________________
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: 16 Sep 2003 17:50:12 -0400
> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:35, David Morris wrote:
> >
> The N-List voluntarily signed
> > on to the P-List.
> >
>
>
> The hope now is that the n-list will do a p-reading we can sign on to.
>
> A way to avoid list stagnation.
>
> P
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:53:57 -0500
> From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> >
> > Lighten up, or...
> >
>
> Oooohhh. I get it. You're making a funny. That's how it works.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:52:11 -0400
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:01:59 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Tim:
> > Similarly, I don't find the oft-repeated "liguistic [sic]" the
"childish"
> > item Mr. Morris would like us to believe. In his post, Dmitri is making
> > obvious reference to the paradox of assessing VN's linguistic
> > skills without
> > attention to one's own, a turn of irony that seems to perhaps escape
some
> > folks.
>
> Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:35:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Somewhat ridiculously, David Morris suggests that his assessment of VN's
work
> shouldn't incur the sort of reaction it does from N-listers, and likewise
> suggests that N-listers, whom he deems "worshippers" of Nabokov, are
somehow
> insecure by "bristling" at the mention of anything less than laudatory
toward
> their author.
>
> Certain N-Listers have expressed this very "ridiculous" (and patently
obvious)
> idea in their own forum: Dimitri is a petulant defender of his father's
> reputation to the detriment of the "forum" of the N-List.
>
> > Similarly, I don't find the oft-repeated "liguistic [sic]" the
"childish"
> item Mr. Morris would like us to believe. In his post, Dmitri is making
> obvious reference to the paradox of assessing VN's linguistic skills
without
> attention to one's own, a turn of irony that seems to perhaps escape some
> folks.
>
> A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob), and it is again a
patently
> obvious cheap and childish shot aimed to denigrate my expressed opinion.
BTW,
> I'm not an author (nor a professor), just a reader with an opinion.
>
> > While many of us on the P-list may not adore everything P's written,
it's
> pretty safe to assume that if someone came into this forum and expressed
"pale
> admiration" for, say, GR, [yada, yada, yada]
>
> Which is why I didn't express it on the N-List. The N-List voluntarily
signed
> on to the P-List.
>
> David Morris
>
> __________________________________
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 12:17:45 -0400
> From: "Scott Badger" <lupine@ncia.net>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
>
> Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings quoted above come from
> Dmitri's response to David...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Monroe <monrovius@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Talk about yr gateway drugs ...
>
> - --- David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > The N-List voluntarily signed on to the P-List.
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dave Monroe <monrovius@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> To quote Nelson Mundt ...
>
> - --- Scott Badger <lupine@ncia.net> wrote:
> > > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
> >
> > Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings
> > quoted above come from Dmitri's response to David...
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:07:48 +0000
> From: dedalus204@comcast.net
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> Morris:
>
> > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob),
>
>
> Typical schoolyard stuff. You obviously suffer from the same
"childishness" of
> which you accuse others.
>
> Grow up, or leave.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> A Boob Man
> >
> > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob), and it is again a
patently
> > obvious cheap and childish shot aimed to denigrate my expressed opinion.
BTW,
> > I'm not an author (nor a professor), just a reader with an opinion.
> >
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- Scott Badger <lupine@ncia.net> wrote:
> > > Yes, very ironic...."expain"...."nacissistic".....
> >
> > Maybe I should have mentioned that the misspellings quoted above come
from
> Dmitri's response to David...
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I'd missed your barb...
>
> DM
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Morris <fqmorris@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> - --- dedalus204@comcast.net wrote:
> > Morris:
> > > A typo is a typo (and a boob (like you) is a boob),
> >
> > Typical schoolyard stuff. You obviously suffer from the same
"childishness"
> of which you accuse others.
> >
> > Grow up, or leave.
>
> Lighten up, or...
>
> DM
>
>
> __________________________________
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: 16 Sep 2003 17:50:12 -0400
> From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:35, David Morris wrote:
> >
> The N-List voluntarily signed
> > on to the P-List.
> >
>
>
> The hope now is that the n-list will do a p-reading we can sign on to.
>
> A way to avoid list stagnation.
>
> P
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:53:57 -0500
> From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: liguistic [sic] showoff
>
> >
> > Lighten up, or...
> >
>
> Oooohhh. I get it. You're making a funny. That's how it works.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:52:11 -0400
>
>
>
> End of pynchon-l-digest V2 #3552
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