Pale Fire

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 21:30, Terrance wrote:
> 
> 
> jbor wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > The rules for reading the novel which people have been insisting upon are
> > almost as funny as Kinbote's. It's this, in part, that Nabokov satirises.
> > 
> > best
> 
> 
> But how can we have a reading of the book if we don't agree on some
> rules? 
> 
> I just don't think the rules we have thus far are good ones. I lobbied
> against the spoiler clause because I don't think it can work. I suggest
> that we keep the  assigned sections, but the schedule has to go.

The schedule serves to gradualize the amount of new material we need to
look at at a given point in time and to make it easier to keep track of
who has or hasn't done his or her assignment. 

Other possibilities would be reverse chronological order or random order
but I think things will go well enough regardless of any system.

P.