IVIV Group Read schedule (in progress)

[Mark Kohut]

"more free-ranging than usual"???

Free-range chickens who are never slaughtered are more constrained than this list is.....I'd cluck happily.



--- On Mon, 1/18/10, 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: "Bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>, "Paul Nightingale" <isread at btinternet.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 1:56 PM
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:13 PM,
> Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ch. 21, pp. 364-369 -- 1/19/10 - ... --Paul N.
> > Outro ...
> 
> Damn.  This has gone by too quickly for me to
> keep/catch up with.
> Keep @ it, of course, as long as you'd like, Paul,
> everyone, and feel
> free Paul, anyone, to include a "final" summation when the
> time comes,
> but ...
> 
> ... but what I'd like to do, and what I'm to some extent
> even prepared
> to do, in a week or so, and/or when the time comes (I'll
> bne wiating
> for Paul's signal, and Paul rhymes with "stall," I hope, so
> ...), is
> to keep teh discussion going, albeit even more free-ranging
> than usual
> here, at least insofar as focus goes, to on the one hand,
> address the
> text as a whole--though it'd be a good time for any
> particular notes
> anyone has to add, revise, revisit, whatever, as well--but
> also, to
> address the reading as whole, perhaps to forge a reading or
> two (or
> ...) of the book, both "in and of itself" (insofar as
> that's posible),
> and in relation to Pynchon's other books (maybe even, as
> has been done
> all along here, to other books, other works, period) ...
> 
> I'd of course also ... appreciate? w'll find out, but ...
> any feedback
> you have regarding the group read--to soon? too fast? or
> ...
> 
> For my part, I've started rereading the book, albeit the
> closing
> chapters first.  I owe y'all a buncha reponses, if not
> outright notes,
> at any rate ...
> 
> Thanks again, Paul, Bekah, everybody, I THINK this has
> been
> productive, and I hope y'all considfer at least "keeping
> the flame"
> ((c) C. McCarthy) 'til maybe ca. Valentine's Day or so ...
> 
> As always, feel free to bring up anything y'all like to
> duscuss.  Not
> to mnetion to discuss it ...
> 
> Thanks again ...
>