Starting the Group Read

[Mark Kohut]

Dave Monroe is the one here who has most brought up the question,
so, I continue in his vein:

I have recently stated, and others seem to agree, that
we might wait for some regular host volunteers---like
the very responsible Laura K.--to get back from vacation
and catch up on the book. Maybe that is still best.

However, with one person's post the other day, it occurred to me
that maybe there are others now posting more regularly
who will NOT be able to post or host once September----that
other new year beginning for many---comes. 

I know I feel 'time's winged chariot' and am champing, chomping,
straining to start the Group Read.....It will be exciting, as 
interesting, I'm sure, as all the drug knowledge we've recently learned.
(I'm too paranoid to report MY drug experiences here--THEY can
look up all this stuff--- I feel such courage for the fearless
tellers here:-).......

Anyway, Laura would surely not want one of the first chapters; we know
Laura is a real quick study and I'll bet did get the book on her trip,
but whether or not, we know she'll be up to speed rill soon. And it's 
not like we have no archives and aren't redundant, or don't repeat ourselves or say the same thing over and over and you can say that again, yes? 

Or,-- I'm presenting it both ways, no excluded middle divide here:
This online "talking" about Inherent Vice, without literally 
pointing to much of the text is ALSO fun and interesting. Very Pychonian:
using IV, like V in "V." and other examples in TRPs work,  as the metaphor itself to talk about Pynchon.......

So, maybe it is time to start? Or, as the shrink says at the end of Portnoy's Complaint, "So, ve are ready to begin, yes?" 

Or keep circling and rereading?