MDMD schedule

[Samuel Moyer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>



> Despite my propensity to procrastinate, I'm all for
> the   perhaps Procrustean, er, bed of the one week per
> hsoting stint schedule myself, esp. as Mason & Dixon
> consists of many, many often short chapters.  And from
> the looks of things, we'll be on 'til next summer or
> so, so ...


Yeah... can anyone tell I am procrastinating... holding off as much as
possible for the weekend on my section... Time... I need time.


>
> Well, what I miss is the sheer density of
> participation there was even when I first signed on,
> ca. last summer.    Even background research seemed,
> if not quite always a collaborative effort, to be
> carried on nonetheless by just about everybody
> posting.  Ditto ongoing thematic diuscussions ...
>

There seemed to be a lot of interest when COL 49 was being organized...  I
think we were a bit drained though... V. was long and left incomplete.  I
will energize and do my bit over the next four or five days... see if we
can't come to some satisfactory end of COL49... Also... I think it wouldn't
hurt if anyone wanted to post a theme or two for COL49 over the weekend...
maybe help us put the entire book together... and the theme better not be
LSD, JFK, etc... (yes... I've been trying to catch up on about 900 posts the
last couple days.)


>
> Well, I don't think we have to worry about "spoilers"
> here

I have yet to read M&D... being new to TRP (Dec 2000 I picked up V. and
joined the list 6 weeks later.)  But I will do my best to finish it by
October 1.... I promise to pick it up the minute my hosting of chap 6 part 2
is complete.  So... tell us if you are spoiling... cheers.


>
> We could probably do with a little more focus,
> sticking at least largely to the Pynchon text at hand,
> but there are also advanatges to reading any given
> text in light of the entire ouevre, esp. as they share
> various elements (e.g., characters), themes, what have
> you.

Agreed... never did that with V. and so I will feel cheated until the next
go 'round.... no, no... don't feel bad for me... but let's not blow it
again...

>
> And here's what we really could use, that review
> session.  I wouldn't say, let's delay Mason & Dixon,
> as there's already a tentative schedule, and it's a
> LONG novel, but ... but it's what perhaps should have
> been done after V., we ought to do what we can in that
> regard after Lot 49 (the final run of which will prove
> an excellent lead-in to M&D, I think), and we should
> definitely plan on doing so after M&D.  Perhaps a
> project for our Host of Hosts?  Excellent idea ...
>

Yeah... put it on the host... I like that.

Cheers,
Sam