IVIV Group Read schedule (in progress): HAND-OFF

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you all for great discussions, obs, always-interesting digressions,
judgments, risked opinions and edification. 

I want to sum up two themes I wanted to make: 1) Doc through Chap 2 is quite a reliable narrator, it seems, so I think some judgments about his unreliability might need changed---or proven deeper or later. 
1A) Doc's obs are very very close to the author's intent, it seems, when it comes to certain Pynchonian themes.

2) Picking up on the meme that TRP at the time this book is set, was writing that incredible masterpiece, so how encodedly autobigraphical is it?...I will repeat that one pretentious perspective that I will try to argue more, as we go on, is: Portrait of the Artist as a Detective of his Own Vision. See how many echoes of earlier books we are finding. 
See how many of Doc's values we get, that seem coterminus with TRPs.

As what's his name says at the end of No Country for Old Men, 
I'M FINISHED for now but I plan to become resurrected in the fulness
of time.

Here's the baton...............

Mark





--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV Group Read schedule (in progress)
> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org, mikebailey at speakeasy.net
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 9:44 AM
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:55 AM,
> Robin
> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Mike B. was dropped off for chapter 9.
> 
> Aughh!  Thanks ...
> 
> ---
> 
> Ch. 2, pp. 19-45 -- 8/31 - 9/06/09 -- Mark K.
> 
> Ch. 3, pp. 46-49
> Ch. 4, pp. 50-54
> Ch. 5, pp. 55-67 -- 9/07 - 9/13/09 -- Robin L. (Happy Labor
> Day!)
> 
> Ch. 6, pp. 68-88 -- 9/13 - 9/20/09 -- (Sloop?) John B.
> 
> Ch. 7, pp. 89-110 -- 9/20 - 9/27/09 -- Robin L.
> 
> Ch. 8, pp. 111-123 -- 9/28 - 10/04/09 -- Dave M.
> 
> Ch. 9, pp. 124-153 -- 10/05 - 10/11/09 -- Mike B.
> 
> Ch. 10, pp. 154-162 -- 10/12 - 10/18/09 -- Bekah
> 
> Ch. 11, pp. 163-185 -- 10/19 - 10/25/09 --
> 
> Ch. 12, pp. 186-206 -- 10/26 - 11/01/09 -- Laura K.
> 
> Ch. 13, pp. 207-234 -- 11/02 - 11/08/09 -- Peter P.
> 
> Ch. 14, pp. 235-255 -- 11/09 - 11/15/09 --
> 
> Ch. 15, pp. 256-274 -- 11/16 - 11/25/09 --
> 
> Thanksgiving break -- 11/26 - 11/29
> 
> Ch. 16, pp. 275-295 -- 11/30 - 12/06/09 --
> 
> Ch. 17, pp. 296-314 -- 12/07 - 12/13/09 --
> 
> Ch. 18, pp. 315-342 -- 12/14 - 12/23/09 --
> 
> Christmas + New Year's Break -- 12/24/09 --1/03/10
> 
> Ch. 19, pp. 343-350
> 
> Ch. 20, pp. 351-363 -- 1/04/10 - 1/10/10 -- Paul N.
> 
> Ch. 21, pp. 364-369 -- 1/01/10 - ... --Paul N.
> Outro
>