Navigating the minefield

[jbor]

Just to recap on a few brief personal opinions I dared to offer over the 
past couple of days:

1) Thanks are due to Dave Monroe for his hosting.

2) "Max's" comment about the "dominance and submission scholarship usually
in evidence on this list" was way out of line.

3) The most productive model for group discussion is the open-ended style of
summary, notes and questions perfected by people like Chris, Jeremy and, if
I recall right, davemarc. Don Corathers' host spot in the current read was
also exemplary in this respect. (Of course, thanks are due to *all* hosts
and participants for their efforts in contributing to the discussion.)

Alongside these parenthetic and inconsequential observations I also posted
rather more extensive commentaries on the 'Luddite' essay, Blicero's
characterisation in _GR_, and, from the current section of the group read,
some thoughts on the song title 'Fugue Your Buddy', on the expository
passage where the metaphor of history as a rathouse is proffered by an
externalised narrator, and a more general comparison of the sewer motif in
the novel with similar motifs in contemporary American works of fiction. I
know which set of data I'd rather be discussing right now.

If a starting point is needed for discussion of the next section of V. then
there is a brief overview here:

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/mondstory.html

best