Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule

[Richard Ryan]

My sense is that Coetzee is less "dense" than Pynchon, but in some ways more subtle and "difficult".  So a slower reading is certainly possible.  


--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg Reading Schedule
> To: "Richard Ryan" <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 2:01 PM
> Coetzee does not encode in layers as TRP does.......He is,
> in that way,
> "easier" to read.....
> 
> I sometimes think we lose threads and forget when we take
> too long.....But,
> I know others have more of a life than I usually do.....
> 
> Whatever the pace, I hope we do close
> readings....."close, slow reading" ala the slow
> food movement.........
> 
> Sometimes, sentence by sentence....?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- 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