MDMD schedule

[Samuel Moyer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michel Ryckx" <michel.ryckx at freebel.net>



> Thanks rj for posting an initial schedule.
>
> But I seem to remember a GR section took us two weeks.  Isn't the pace a
bit too fast?  I'd favour
> the same rythm as we had while the GRGR. Two weeks isn't too much.  As
Dave Monroe said in his
> prolegomena: "a genuine research project" --which takes time.
>
> Michel.
>

Having been through VV and now COL49 - extremes in pace... we might try to
learn something...  VV at two weeks for a section seemed too long.  Hosts
drop off and no one picks up... the group read would die for weeks at a
time.  Now with the 3 day read... which is way too fast for me, most of us
aren't contributing as we would like, sections get skipped, or lightly
covered...

I think two weeks for 35 to 40 pages in V. was too long (except at the end,
when there really ought to be time to discuss overall themes/issues.)  I
think that three days for 20 pages (COL49) is too short.

Personally, one week for about 15-20 pages seems about right for this group.
Not so long, but time enough to cover material... catch up if you get
behind... work through other sources...etc...

On the other hand, I would agree that we can't do "a genuine research
project" at that pace... nor at a two week pace,  as a chapter by chapter
review leaves out substantial areas of discussion....  perhaps after a
chapter by chapter discussion... we can continue with a discussion of
various themes...   Here is an example:  We talked about the nature of V.
(the woman or other possible V.'s) during each of the chapters in which she
appeared.  But we never got around to really discussing V. collectively... I
know we also talked about time/space etc. during various chapters, but I
think we could have spent a week or two exploring the theme throughout the
entire novel at the end...

The tendency is to not jump ahead of the section you are in... so this puts
you in a bind... for instance... it was difficult to speak of Sydney Stencil
without a desire to point out events in the final chapter... then when the
final chapter came... we were finished without a wrap up and onto COL49.

So I would suggest that we keep the one week calendar as suggested and use
it to review each chapter as well as we can... then at the novel's
conclusion, gather themes from the audience and deal with them also for a
week or two at a time... just an idea from someone who still feels that we
left V. incomplete.

Sam