IV Group Read

[Mark Kohut]

Of course. Wanted to know a reason to wait and you gave us one.

I'll google and draw plot diagrams until then. :-)

Mark

--- On Sat, 8/15/09, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV Group Read
> To: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Cc: markekohut at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org, against.the.dave at gmail.com, kelber at mindspring.com
> Date: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 7:07 AM
> Howdy podners,
> My on-line order was delayed, and I still haven't got
> Inherent Vice. I'm eagerly looking forward to reading it at
> last, and I'd appreciate if you let me a couple weeks before
> we start the group reading.
> Thanks!
> Clément
> 
> Le 15 août 09 à 11:38, Carvill John a écrit :
> 
> > 
> >> John C., were you serious about starting it?
> > Don't think I said I would start it, did I? I think I
> said I'd like to see it start as soon as possible, but that
> was just selfishness, I'm equally happy to wait for anyone
> and everyone.
> > 
> > I don't think I would take a hosting slot. The last
> couple of Group Reads I participated in here were not
> edifying experiences. I tried to get a group read of GR
> going a few years back, and the results could not have been
> worse unless, I dunno, an actual fatality had occurred. I
> hosted a segment of the ATDTDA (aka 'Touching the Dog's
> Arse'), and was lucky enough to get one of the best and most
> obviously significant passages of teh book to annotate, and
> I put quite a lot of work into my posts, and it triggered
> virtually no discussion at all, and I ended up feeling it
> had been a total waste of time. Which it had.
> > 
> > Don't want to be negative - and I hope I'm not, I
> recently sent a post bigging up the p-list in general. And
> I'm looking forward to the IV GR, and will eagerly
> participate, but I don't want to be *that* involved.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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