Prolegomena to Searching for V. group read.

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Sun Jun 6 15:53:10 CDT 2010



Mark, there's no way I can participate until Saturday (couple-three
weekdays in Helsinki etc.), but if you start now, I'll try to catch
up little by little.


Heikki

On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Mark Kohut wrote:

> I have been spending a couple-three very peaceful early mornings getting lost in "V." like it is my old 'hood. Wonderful feeling(s).
>
> If I read Laura aright, I can start?  That's good, 'cause as many know, I CAN talk/write too much......
>
> 'Cause, after all the later Pynchon's and all the plist's insightful brushwork and talk therapy, there is much to say, much
> to observe, I say. I'll flood the three weeks faster'n you can delete! (Sorry. But deleting's easy, rich associative comedy is hard)
>
> I will start with some prolegomena to V. [prolegomena---word I learned in book title of Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics----
> book still unread] This is in case any of you who might have been planning to start rereading V. closer to the original 6/14 start date can
> start NOW...do it, it is worth it.
>  
> Let's make this the BEST group read goin' down anywhere in the world, 'kay?
>  
> All together now..............
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Sun, June 6, 2010 12:19:07 PM
> Subject: V Group Read - tentative schedule
>
> Seems like we've got enough hosts so far to proceed.  We can have a general free-for-all for host-less chapters.  Keep on signing up, though,folks.
>
> Mark, get ready, get set ...
>
> Tentative schedule (we can always adjust back or forwards).  Allowing 3 weeks, 2 hosts for chapters of 50 or more pages:
>
> 6/14-6/27 - Chap. 1 - Mark Kohut
>
> 6/28 -7/11 - Chap. 2 - Laura Kelber
>
> 7/12 - 7/25 - Chap. 3 - Ian Livingston
>
> 7/26 - 8/8 - Chap. 4 - Dave Monroe
>
> 8/9 - 8/22 - Chap. 5 - Joseph Tracy
>
> 8/23- 9/5 - Chap. 6 - Jill Adams? (confirm this, Jill)
>
> 9/6 - 9/26 - Chap. 7 - (3 weeks, 2 hosts)
>
> 9/27 - 10/10 - Chap. 8 - Mike Bailey
>
> 10/11 - 10/31 - Chap. 9 -  (3 weeks) - Robin Landseadel
>
> 11/1 - 11/14 - Chap. 10 -
>
> 11/15 - 12/5 - Chap. 11 (3 weeks, 2 hosts)
>
> 12/6 - 12/19 - Chap. 12 - Emma Wrigley
>
> Winter break
>
> 1/10 - 1/23 - Chap. 13 - Heikki Raudaskoski
>
> 1/24 - 2/6 - Chap. 14 - Page
>
> 2/7 - 2/20 - Chap. 15 -
>
> 2/21 - 3/6 - Chap. 16 -
>
> 3/7 - 3/20 - Epilogue
>
>
>



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