Calling election early

[Bekah]

Excellent  -  thanks.   :-)

Bekah
who's never read V. -   shhhhhhhhhhhh............


On May 20, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> With well over 17 minutes to go we hate to call the election  
> prematurely. BUt here is how things are shaping up short of radical  
> revisionist voting
> First the votes to date:
>
> Ray Easton
> )Invisible Man, 2)Ulysses, 3)Miss Lonelyhearts
> Alex Colter
> - 1)V 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Mumbo Jumbo
> Joseph Tracy
> 1)Farewell My Lovely, 2)The Master and Margarita, Mumbo Jumbo
> Keith
> 1) Ada   2)Wurlitzer- Nog 3)McCarthy- Suttree
> Robin Landseadel
> 1) 2)and 3)Farewell My Lovely
> Henry M
> 1. Farewell My Lovely 2. Mumbo Jumbo 3. Ulysses
> Heikki R
> 1. The Education of Henry Adams 2). Invisible Man  3) V.
> Scott Jones
> 1)Mumbo Jumbo, 2)Cybernetics, 3)Man Who Was Thursday
> Janos S
> 1)V  2) The Master and Margarita 3)Ada, or Ardor
> Bekah
> 1)V 2)Miss Lonely Hearts 3) Farewell My lovely
> Emma Wrigley
> 1)Augie March, 2) Mumbo Jumbo 3) Farewell My Lovely
> Arnoud Rommens
> 1)  Master and Margarita 2)Invisible Cities 3) ATD
> Joe Allonby
> 1)2)3) The Master and Margarita
> Mark Kohut
> 1) V  2) Invisible Man  3) Augie March
> Ian L
> 1.) V.  2.) Invisible Man  3.) Education of Henry Adams
> Robert Mahnke
> 1) The Master and Margarita 2)Dog of the South 3) Gringos
> Laura Kelber
> 1)V, 2) Education of Henry Adams, 3)Invisible Man
> Clement Levy
> 1) Farewell my Lovely 2) V. 3) The Education of Henry Adams
> Jude Bloom
> 1) V.  2) Ulysses  3) Farewell My Lovely
> Charles Albert
> 1) A Cool Million  2) Farewell My Lovely  3) The Man Who Was Thursday
> John Carvill
> 1) Augie March  2) Invisible Man  3) Farewell My Lovely
> alice wellintown
> 1. Invisible Man  2. Moby-Dick  3. The Education of Henry Adams
> Jon Bon Bailey:
> 1. Invisible Man 2. Moby-Dick 3. V.
> Tsianades Costas
> 123 The Master and Margarita
> Michel Ryckx
> 1)2)3)V
> Johnny Marr
> 1 - Swann's Way 2 - The Recognitions 3 - Wuthering Heights
> David Meyer
> 1. Perdido Street Station 2. Against the Day 3. Ulysses
> Doug Millison
> 1. anything by Pynchon  (V) 2. Mumbo Jumbo 3. Moby-Dick
> grladams
> 1) Tristam Shandy 2) Bartleby the scrivener 3) Farewell My Lovely
> Kai Lorentzen
> A/1) Shaumschwester 2) Ioslabern 3) Ich Werde...
>
>   USING INSTANT RUNOFF AS WELL AS I CAN FIGURE IT OUT
> 1st Round Starting with 1st choice votes   Invisible Man- 3,  V-9,    
> Farewell- 4 , Ada-1,  Henry A-1,  Mumbo Jumbo-1,  Augie March-2   
> M&M-4, Miss L-1
>
> 2nd&3rd rounds keeping Top 3 contenders    V- 9+ 1+ 1 = 11        
> Farewell- 4+ 1+1+1+1 =8         M&M-4+0=4
>
> 		Alternatively,
> FIGURING 1 PERSON, 3 VOTES and just tallying  the top vote getters  
> were as follows:
>
> Total votes  Miss L-3,   Invisible  Man-7,  V-14 , Farewell- 10,   
> M&M-10 , MJ-6 ,   U-3,  Edu of HE-4
>
> So by all rights , without a runoff Pynchon's V is the choice of the  
> p-list for our next group read
>
> We could have a run-off amongst  the top 3 votegetters- V, Farewell  
> My Lovely, and The Master and Margarita. I say  we only do so if 20  
> of our 28 voters respond tomorrow that they want a runoff and cast a  
> vote for one of the 3. Otherwise it is V
>
> Gimme a V!   V! Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!   V!  
> Gimme a V!    V! Gimme a V!   V! Gimme a V!   V! .......
> What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!
> What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!
> What's that spell? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV!
>
> And so, broadcasting once again from out in the radio netherlands of  
> a vast and non-existent ether, perched aboard the Inconvenience  we  
> can see vast hordes of all night revelers lifting the V for victory  
> sign and many of them puking their guts out.   Time once again to  
> sign off, and sail on, wondering about the choices we have made and  
> the possibilities of planet B.
>
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