Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 8 11:51:02 CDT 2008


I do plan to be alive and not much more mentally deteriorated by my hosting time. 

MK


--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised Schedule
> To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>, "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 2:17 PM
> Thank you David.
> 
> Fellow hosters - Lawrence (who I believe originally
> suggested TMoP for the group read) can't perform his
> hosting duties during the Oct 13 - Oct 26th time slot.  
> 
> David, would you be OK switching slots with Larwrence? 
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read - Revised
> Schedule
> To: "Richard Ryan"
> <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Bekah" <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>,
> "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 11:21 AM
> 
> I volunteer for the last segment.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Richard Ryan
> <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Ok - so after getting some more feedback and input and
> another hosting
> volunteer
>  (thanks Mark!) we now have a schedule of four chapters
> every TWO
> weeks.
> >
> > Richard Sept 15th - 28th Chapters 1-4
> > Bekah Sept 29th - Oct 12th  Chapters 5-8
> > Lawrence Oct 13th - Oct 26th Chapter 9-12
> > Mark Oct 27th - Nov 9th Chapters 13-16
> > TBD Nov 10th - Nov 23rd  Chapters 17-20
> >
> > I need to hear from our hosts and make sure this
> schedule works for them,
> but I hope that this is one that the rest of the list can
> live with.
> >
> > This is a schedule of about 3 pages a day - it seems a
> little slow to me -
> but it provide for the kind of very close reading that the
> group wants....
> >
> > RR
> >
> > --- On Wed, 9/3/08, David Morris
> <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Master of Petersburg - Group Read
> >> To: "Bekah"
> <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >> Cc: "Richard Ryan"
>  <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>,
> "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 9:36 AM
> >> This is essentially the pace that I suggested,
> except my
> >> proposal was
> >> to shorten the length of each section to about 25
> pages per
> >> week.  As
> >> I said before, I think 50 pages per week is too
> ambitious.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Bekah
> >> <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> > I think I'm scheduled to host Chapters 5
> - 8 (4
> >> chapters).  In my version (Amazon.com)  that's
> pages 29
> >> - 93, 65 pages.   There is an incredible amount of
> material
> >> in those pages and I don't mind doing it as
> I'm
> >> already familiar with it but I'd kind of like
> to see it
> >> spread out over 2 weeks if that could be worked
> out.
> >> >
> >> > I think 2 weeks per section
>  might be better fFor the
> >> shorter sections, too, because there may be more
> material
> >> than meets the first-level reader's eye.
> >> >
> >> > Bekah
> >
> >


      




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