Calling election early

[Mark Kohut]

Standing on Joseph T.'s shoulders, after all his work, and,
for completeness totaling the vote under the suggested points system:

#1 = 3 points...#2 =2 points  #3 = 1 point             and 
adding a few optional vote counting decisions....(with the
changes other decisions  would make) we plisters have still chosen: 

V.      28 1/2 points   (the 1/2 reached by breaking Doug M.s 'anything by Pynchon' into the two P titles voted on: V. and AtD)
Invisible Man               23 points (a very strong #2 & #3 vote when not #1)
Master & Margarita      16 points
Farewell, My Lovely      14 points
Edu Henry Adams        10 points
Mumbo Jumbo             8 points
Augie March                7 points
Moby Dick, a surprise closer (parallels its rep)  7 points

And then the rest. (Had I but thought of Proust.....)


Full disclosure: if anyone voted for the same book for all three spots, I counted it as a #1 vote, three points...Did
not seem a possibilty when some of us voted, but we plisters are an ingenious creative bunch, at least.

HOWEVER, just to reaffirm our Democratic Anarchism---has anyone ever run on that platform?---
Even when one counts one book voted for in all places, 
Master & Margarita moves to 22, a very close third.....
Farewell, My Lovely moves to 17.......
but V. had one ballot as all three as well, so V. moves to 31 1/2.....

Self-organizedly and not surprisingly and aptly, maybe, the plist votes to reread another of Thomas Pynchon's novels.

CONGRATS TO V. and we plisters and online democracy. 




 


----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 11:46:09 PM
Subject: Calling election early

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.