col49 to start the summer

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Jun 2 18:25:26 CDT 2001


I'm all for Sam's suggestion. The MDDM (_Mason & Dixon Deep & Meaningful)
can certainly be delayed until the _Lot49_ read is completed I think.

best

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>From: "Samuel Moyer" <smoyer at satx.rr.com>
>

> I think we just agree on a method.... Maybe a veteran will offer to do
> this...  If not, I would suggest we wait until mid/late July and then set it
> up.  There are roughly five weeks so we could do Chapters 1&2 during week
> one, then a chapter a week after.  Another way would be to divide the longer
> chapters in half... this makes 9 sections of approx. 20 pages.  We could
> have one every three days, leaving four or five days at the end for 'final'
> discussion.  For instance:
> Aug 1 Chapter 1 Host Name
> Aug 4 Chapter 2 Host Name
> Aug 7 Chapter 3 pp. 44-64 Host Name
> Aug 10 Chapter 3 pp. 65-80 Host Name
> Aug 13 Chapter 4 Host Name
> Aug 16 Chapter 5 pp. 100-124 Host Name
> Aug 19 Chapter 5 pp. 124 -145 Host Name
> Aug 21 Chapter 6 pp. 146-165 Host Name
> Aug 24 Chapter 6 pp. 166-183 Host Name
>
> I split ch 3 so that "The Courier's Tragedy" was covered in the second part,
> ch 5 splits where the pace of events changes... chapter 6 splits when she
> has finished talking with Bortz.
>
> There you have my opinion anyway... and I will sign-up/participate when the
> thing is decided.



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