couldn't

[Michael Bailey]

Bekah wrote:
>  You bet,  Jill.  If I can do it,  anybody can.
>

and, it was a lot of fun, wasn't it?
I enjoyed my turns, but now I'm wondering if somebody
with a different perspective - maybe a Buddhist one, for instance
(or a nudist one...) might like to take the opening

> Btw,  I've kept up with AtD  (2nd full reading and lots of glorious parts
> many, many times)  if not with all the posts.  Sometimes the posts became
> more complex and esoteric than Pynchon and I couldn't really follow them
> (sorry).   Btw,  I think I just used my favorite descriptor for AtD -
> glorious.

I pretty much read every post - it's cut into some of my
leisure reading, actually, but it seems like a good trade
at this point.  I don't know how anybody could follow every
link, though, good as my sampling indicates they may be...

>  grladams wrote:
>
> Sometimes I get psyched out by the high caliber on this list. I hope
> would-be hosters aren't shy because a couple really great ones on the list
> raised the bell curve for everyone. It ain't like it used to be, though, on
> this list thank ghod.
>

I haven't read the whole archives, but it seems like
there have been several golden ages over the years.
While right now might not be 24 karat golden, still
it's pretty good.  We have a huge advantage of a major
new work to explore.