Reading GRAVITY'S RAINBOW aloud

[Bill Millard]

Peter Giordano, of Williams, reported:
 
> The bookstore here in my town held a marathon reading recently of GR - It
> went from 6PM on Thursday to 8AM on Saturday I read from Midnight to
> 2AM twice - That put me into the Advent scene one night and the castration
> scene the next - It was great fun and the prose stands up quite nicely aloud -
> Alas, we did not have musical instruments for the songs
> 
> Does anybody know of other such events - Is there a place where this
> is a tradition?

My old school (one Amherst College, a few miles down the road from
Billyburg and closer to civilization; you may have heard of it) held
one of these, I believe, around 1981 or '82 -- shortly after I'd
gone 'n' graduated, unfortunately, so I wasn't in on it.  I've heard
of similar goings-on at Princeton on a fairly regular basis.  

It seems Cornell would have good reason to commemorate TRP this way; 
is there anybody from up there on the list who could fill us in?

--Bill Millard (hoping any purple-hued flames from the distant 
Berkshire woods will be kept off-list)