Terrance,
Just stop writing posts that feature me as the victim of beatings, rapes, homicide, etc., and things will be fine. It's easy enough to ignore the other things you write on Pynchon-L.
I ask you never to telephone me again, and to stop sending your hate mail to my email box. I can't stop your spewing on Pynchon-L, of course. Since you know where I live, if you continue with the hate mail and threatening messages, I will do what I have to do to make sure our home here does not become the scene of some stalker tragedy. You have a reputation as an unpredictable and unstable person; knowing that, I feel justified in taking these actions.
You appear to be as disturbed and unpredictable as you were on the phone when you called me -- perhaps more so -- and as I have heard you described by several other people. I urge you to get the help you need, and to stop harassing and threatening me. Because we have had a personal connection in the past, I do hope that you manage to work through whatever it is that causes you to fantasize about raping, beating, killing the people you interact with on Pynchon-L and elsewhere. That you persist in calling that sort of extreme behavior jokes or word play strikes me as pathetic. (The same goes for your fellow participants in that sort of "word play" on Pynchon-L.)
Post as much Melville as you like. He's a favorite author of mine, even if you never do manage to make any sort of intelligible or convincing connection between the huge Melville passages you post and Pynchon's text -- Sincerely,
Doug Millison
P.S. In a separate email which I will not post here, I told "Monica Belevan" there was no need for her to withdraw from Pynchon-L, I said the same thing to "her" (if indeed the person using that anonymous @hotmail email account to post to me and to Pynchon-L has anything to do with an actual Monica Belevan somewhere, and isn't just the latest in the series of hoaxes that you and others have played out on Pynchon-L; I heard from "her" offlist just minutes after receiving one of your offlist emails to me today) that I say to you: just stop making me the object of violent fantasies on Pynchon-L, don't send me any hate mail, and we'll have no further cause for action.
Doug Millison - Writer/Editor/Web Editorial Consultant
http://www.Online-Journalist.com
