V vs. Master and Margarita

Sun May 23 12:53:08 CDT 2010

Just FYI...I miscounted. M & M was second.

Invisible Man only totals 18points.

If we are having the run-off, I still vote for V. 
(M & M second) Smile.

----- Original Message ----
From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, May 23, 2010 12:08:21 PM
Subject: V vs. Master and Margarita

How about a runoff between the weighted winner, V, and the unweighted
winner, Master and Margarita.  That people voted much more strongly for V by
making it their number one choice should NOT be discounted.

If you're buying V, please buy from and support a long-time P-lister:
http://tinyurl.com/pynchonv 

Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/  

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 11:42 AM
To: pynchon -l
Cc: Joseph T
Subject: Re: Calling election early

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.