Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule

[Richard Ryan]

Sorry I meant to write "10 pages per day".

--- On Wed, 8/27/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule
> To: "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 1:19 PM
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Richard Ryan
> <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If a number of listers want to start the MoP read two
> weeks later that's certainly fine with me - Lawrence and
> Bekah would have to indicate whether that works for their
> schedule.
> >
> > MoP is 256 pages, so the 25 day schedule I proposed
> assumed 10 pages, or four relatively short chapters every
> five days.  If that seems too fast I can certainly add some
> time onto the schedule.
> >
> 
> Doesn't 256 pages in 25 days actually equal 10 pages
> per DAY, and
> about 50 pages per hosted segment?  I think that's WAY
> too fast.
> That's about TWICE as many pages as our Against the Day
> reading.  I
> don't have the book, so I can't compare
> words-per-page-wise, but this
> still seems too aggressive.  Let's limit the segments
> to 20 to 30
> pages per segment.  And lets start it on Sept 22, if
> that's all right
> with the group.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> David Morris