NPPF Comm 2: Recap, schedule, etc

[Don Corathers]

Friends--

The discussion of the second part of the Pale Fire Commentary was originally
scheduled to start last Monday, August 25. And it did, but my first four
posts were met with dead silence, which I interpreted as a symptom of
late-August/pre-Labor Day absence and inattention. (It never occurred to me
that my notes might be getting an indifferent response because they were so
dreary.)

Panicked by what seemed to be an empty room, I asked for a change in the
schedule, which Vincent graciously made, delaying the start of the session
until tomorrow, September 2. A few days after that change was made, panicked
by an empty inbox (empty of NPPF content, anyway), I reversed field and
began posting the rest of my notes.

As a result, my hosting session has been just a little bit scattered and
attenuated. My apologies. If you're just now checking back in because you've
been out at the Hamptons or in Utana or wherever you go, or because you
thought we were on break (which officially I guess we were), you may want to
use the archive locations below to review the notes. Not included in the
list, but easy enough to find once you get into the August archive index,
are some additional notes posted by the erudite Mr. Fidget.

As for the schedule: no objection here to going back to the original plan or
some semblance of it, or anyway beginning the next session as soon as
Jasper's ready to post his notes, which I suspect is probably right now.
This novel uniquely demands to be considered all at once anyway--maybe we
should consider compressing the reading schedule from the original one-week
per session scheme, letting them overlap.

My notes, except for the last one, which isn't in the archive yet:

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84805&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84806&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84807&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84808&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84906&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=85088&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=85090&sort=date

http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=85193&sort=date

Don