GR III RSVP

[Otto]

>
> I don't think we are ready for a hosting schedule yet. But we are
> getting there. I'm glad you have added your name to the list of those
> willing to host. We have Six people committed to hosting now. We don't
> have a schedule yet. Again, I don't think we need a hosting schedule
> yet. In fact, I think we are better off without one for the time being.
>

I think our beginning on the von Braun-epigraph wasn't that bad.

>
> We still need to work out the details of how we will proceed. My idea
> that we can read GR faster than we have previously is not the law of the
> list. It's only an idea I've floated.

I still think it's an appealing idea. I'd have nothing against dealing with
GR for the next three years or until the next novel comes out. But the
experience has shown that long group-readings loose participants on the way,
maybe a shorter procedure might move people from lurking to posting,
eventually even hosting?

> So is the idea that hosts should
> focus on the text and not add to the copious Notes, Research, Critical
> Stuff amassed and archived during, between, and after the first two
> group readings of Gravity's Rainbow.
>

I get your point and it's a good one. But for this focussing on the text
instead on the critical apparatus around it I think the hosts should be
preferably native speakers.

>
> Let's here from others. What say you, P-listers? Do we need a host
> schedule right now?
> Can we read the novel in 8-12 months? Do we want to ask Hosts to abstain
> from the Google machine? From the  extra/inter textual reading? And from
> the research approach? Can we do without the notes, the critical
> literature ... the etymological and analytical method employed in the
> previous readings?
>
> Can we and should we read GR and only GR? Can we do a fast and focused
> reading of GR?
>

I don't know but from my point of view -- let's give it a try. There'll be
always enough time to do the essays.

> We want to hear from everyone.
>
> Thanks

 Y'r obd't s'v't.

  Otto