Headcount Update #4,367

[Tim Strzechowski]

I think it would be an excellent testament to the scholarship and
professionalism of this list (yes, it can be professional when it wants to
be!) to be able to pull off a simul-read with _Pale Fire_ and _Vineland_.
I'd planned to reread PF during its group read anyways, and I envisioned two
group readings going on at the same time, with listers dipping back and
forth amongst the various threaded discussions of both books.  I think the
possibilities are great!

Truth be told, I have no time to handle anything for the PF read (what with
a three-week-old baby in the house, minimal sleep, tee-ball games for my
six-yr-old, and a _Vineland_ read to prep for).  I was sort of assuming the
PF reading would handle itself (since yesterday, it seemed so many people
wanted to do it).

I think the organization of the _Pale Fire_ reading should go to those who
expressed an interest in doing so (Morris, Quail, cfa, slothenvypride, et
al).  If it goes, I'll be lurking and piping in as I see fit.  In the
meantime, I'm looking forward to VLVL2.

Tim



----- Original Message -----
From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Headcount Update #4,367


> It could be quite stimulating to have a sub-group
> talking Pale Fire and Pynchon along with a Vineland
> reading.  Everybody writing essays and reporting out
> the results of their readings, comparing and
> contrasting, debating, learning together,-- it could
> be great.  Pynchon-L already sustains multiple
> discussion threads, all the time, so it's not as if
> the larger group doesn't know how to pursue
> distinct-but-compatible interests. Invite the
> Nabokov-L folks in, too, why not.
>