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[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:26, David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> > >>>More comments, ideas, etc., please?<<<
> > 
> > I would also vote for avoiding spoilage by staying with what we know from the
> text at the point in the text we are reading. This will require some to play
> dumb in the early stages and for the rest of us just to be ourselves.
> 
> This is only partly practical and maybe counterproductive.  None of us, first
> timers (me) of re-readers will have a rock-solid take on what's the "truth" of
> the text, who's who and who's not.  So it's natural that we'd all want to start
> speculating.  But those with foreknowledge will be at a disatvantage if they
> have to keep quiet.  I guess we could ask that such speculation be based soley
> on what's been read thus far, but that will be a task for those having already
> been through the book to try to grapple with, a hard self-call.


The Commentary contains (at least) two kinds of information. Without
giving much of anything away, I'd suggest that use and/or mention of
information of the first kind be permitted (if one wishes) during the
poem reading but information of the second kind not be broached until
later.

P.