Fw: Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule (chapt. 14?)

[kevin cummiskey]

Wait, im beginning to get a little uncomfortable here because it's beginning to look like the Master(bater) of Petersburg is getting more attention than I am.


--- On Wed, 8/27/08, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 3:51 PM
> Dave Monroe:
>           I'm hardly one in a position to say,
> let's not 
>           devote ourselves occasionally to anything 
>           not immediately Pynchonian here (though 
>           I likely will keep up with notes thereupon 
>           while whoever else is on to Coetzee), but 
>           I would hope that we give no small 
>           consideration for at least a little while 
>           longer not only to the novel we're still 
>           finishing up on here, but also to all those 
>           who participated (i.e., all of us). . . .
> 
> . . . .not the least of which would be Dave Monroe who
> managed
> to pick up sections others dropped. I thank anyone who
> challenged
> my posts, what with their high weirdness coefficient. I
> thank Mark 
> Kohut for cheerleading and helping to note possible
> alternate 
> interpretations, Paul Nightingale for continuing to thread
> an intellectually
> consistent and valid [and slower] course through a novel
> that requires 
> alternate readings. I know there's many others I need
> to thank, in 
> particular whatever forces enabled me to be living in such
> a time and
> place that so much information can be accessed so easily. 
> 
> Seeing as Quan Yin is staring me down from her spot above
> the writing 
> desk, I'll think I'd better thank "The
> Compassionate."