Group Read Headcount

[David Morris]

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at attbi.com> wrote:
> Sadly, you seem rather threatened at the thought of Vineland having a couple
of more people interested.  Equally sad is the way you seem to think of this as
a competition of sorts.

Pardon me, but there's only one person who has strenuously opposed s~Z's
suggestion that we read Pale Fire.  No one has opposed anyone else's group
read.  The last thing I feel is threatened.

> I think Pale Fire is an excellent choice for a group read on Pynchon-L; I
think Vineland is a better one. I am prepared to go with majority rule, and
help make the group read (whatever it is) as fulfilling a venture as possible.

Good.  But nothing is stopping you from doing a Vineland group read.  Curiously
Doug has not volunteered to join you.
 
> However, I still haven't seen a "blessing" from the list owners to go ahead
with reading Nabokov. And since this IS a Pynchon forum, and it HAS been a long
time since a Vineland read was conducted here, and that novel IS so relevant to
today's events, I don't see why Vineland seems like such a horrible choice for
some of you.

If you had participated in the last one (as I did) you would know why it's a
bad idea, especially in the current political climate.  At least with Pale Fire
nobody would be able to claim that Pynchon's take on "__(fill in the blank)__"
was "clear" and anyone who didn't see it was obviously a fascist (or "sounded
like" a fascist.

David Morris

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