Calling election early

[alice wellintown]

Though I've little faith in it, I'm glad the democratic process worked.

There is a wonderful scene in The Education, Henry and the boyz, after
a protracted snowball war on the Common, are driven back into the dark
dead ends, where the biggest and bravest boyz take a stand against the
rough lads of the lowlands. Henry's boyz win the day. Although I'm not
sure what lesson Henry took from that day, I'm certain he learned more
than he would have had he gone to school that day. I feel a bit like
Henry now. Although I studied and studied democracy, I never came to
understand it or have faith in its inscrutable workings, but I'm
certain something happened here that is far better than anything I
ever learned from a Master.


On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Standing on Joseph T.'s shoulders, after all his work, and,
> for completeness totaling the vote under the suggested points system:
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> #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:
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> 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
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> And then the rest. (Had I but thought of Proust.....)
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> 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.
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> 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.....
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> Self-organizedly and not surprisingly and aptly, maybe, the plist votes to reread another of Thomas Pynchon's novels.
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> CONGRATS TO V. and we plisters and online democracy.
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> ----- 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
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> 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:
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> 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...
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>   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
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> 2nd&3rd rounds keeping Top 3 contenders    V- 9+ 1+ 1 = 11      Farewell- 4+ 1+1+1+1 =8        M&M-4+0=4
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>         Alternatively,
> FIGURING 1 PERSON, 3 VOTES and just tallying  the top vote getters were as follows:
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> Total votes  Miss L-3,  Invisible  Man-7,  V-14 , Farewell- 10,  M&M-10 , MJ-6 ,  U-3,  Edu of HE-4
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> So by all rights , without a runoff Pynchon's V is the choice of the p-list for our next group read
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> 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
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> 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!
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> 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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