LET'S GO GRAVITY'S RAINBOW!

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> You whine a lot about a lot of things here, Terrance,
> but you rarely if ever do anything that seems to be a
> "better," or even a "different" way of doing things
> here.  

I've not whined. 
I've proposed an alternative to the
benumbing schedule of esoteric texts we are trudging
through presently (usage problem). 

I acknowledge that there was little enthusiasm for my proposal from the
old gaurd.  However, we did here from half-a-dozen-or-so new bloods. 

The Old Guard said, 

1. I don't get it
2. You don't actually expect me to change my way of doing things here
3. I'll do my thing, but I can't promise anything 
4. KNock yourself out and blow our minds and then I'll decide if I want
to go
5. You're proposal isn't going to work unless you set it up the way we
    always have
6. You're too lazy to do it. And besides,  you just like to whine 

I proposed a fast and text-focused reading of GR. 


The New Blood, in contrast,  bleeded for the chance to read the novel
that put Pynchon on the top ten list. 

When I proposed this kind of group reading, I thought that we would need
at least a dozen people to commit to reading the novel with an On-Line
group over a period of 8-12 months. I asked for volenteers. I did not
post a host schedule because posting and filling up a host schedule is a
meaningless exercise if your goal is to find 12 committed readers.  


Indeed, you are typically among the most
> oblique, esoteric, inscrutible, and, at times,
> seemingly irrelevant posters here.  

When in Greece ... but you are correct. And, I've enjoyed it from time
to time, but even the blackest parasitos must grow weary of wine and
pheta. 



You want to start
> up a GR reading?  Then do it.  I'll no doubt join in.
> As will many here.  

Will you agree to trash the current reading list? 


But it's pointless  to complain
> that people aren't doing things your way, the way you
> think tehy should eb done, whatever.  

It's not. I'm making my argument fro trashing the current reading list
and reading Gravity's Rainbow. That's my point. Got it? 


The point of
> having all these list memebrs, the point of expanding
> list membership, was, I'm assuming, is, I'm observing,
> and should be, I'm asserting, to get as much input in
> as many ways as possible.  

Yes, but 99.999999999% of the world has never read these obscure and
mediocre texts you have schedules. 

>Again, all mouth, no hit.

Bullshit! I'll google scoop you line for line, Monroe. I've a bigger
library and better fingers. So there! 

Seriously, I enjoy reading a few of your posts from time to time. Look
backward to reading them, even, but ... as the Greeks say, two heads are
better than one and 12 heads are better than none. And GR is better than
anything else. And we shoudl read it ... cause, because because because
because because of the wonderful things it does.