duntemann.wbst@XEROX.ARPA (08/28/84)
RE: Peter Reiher's suggestion that discussion of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW go off-line or into net.books... Nay, nay! Let me offer up some reasons: 1) That excludes me and other people; my company thinks unix are harem attendents and has no link to usenet. 2) Just because I (or someone else watching from the sidelines) don't't care for GRAVITY'S RAINBOW doesn't mean I'm not interested in what other people have to say about it. Lord knows, I might learn something. 3) Books BELONG on SF-LOVERS. Look, we debate endlessly why Scottie sticks his finger up his left nostril instead of his right; a couple of week's discussion of the uses of conscious verbal style would sit very well with me and others who see TV sets as performance degraded video monitors. 4) It makes it sound like GRAVITY'S RAINBOW is somehow "too good" to banter about on SF-LOVERS. Reverence is for Friendlies and other lower animals; nothing there is under (or over) the sun that doesn't deserve dissection now and then. Don't run off with the good topics just as I was starting to enjoy them! --Jeff Duntemann duntemann.wbst@xerox PS: Shutting down the Dirac for awhile...see y'all at LA!