TRTR a stab at meta (groan...) // very disorganized rambling // schedule????

[Michael Bailey]

no pun intended, but gosh I like that it happened...

trying to get back into TR, it's been beach weather and one weighs
missing that sunshine against missing the reading

people do read on the beach, but I've never been able to....have to
get in...it's weird, at New Smyrna it's been perfect for body surfing,
you can ride the waves, just stretched out, while at Daytona
(amazingly crowded yesterday) it's a totally different wave, they
pummel you (in a nice way) and you have to jump in at the right moment
and do

Gaddis wasn't a dialectical materialist, was he?  it seems like for a
whole lot of people, that's a universe of thoughts and associations
that could underpin a big, ambitious work like TR.

He doesn't seem to be blindly affectionate toward Catholicism, but
there's all those religious references to consider.

What I wonder if Mark was driving at a few posts ago with saying
Gaddis was anti-religious, was a theory that the recognitions in the
book concerning people's religious experiences seem to be things most
of us would recognize as being negatives.

In the original Recognitions of Clementine, there were also a lot of
false doctrines encountered, and part of the recognitions was of their
falsity.

Is there anywhere a big fat book where someone has taken the Marxist,
or anarchist, or another philosophy to heart, and sought out
recognitions of it, Clementine-like?  A long love story for a
philosophy?  I sometimes think of Portrait and Ulysses as Joyce's love
song for "art over all"...


but anyway, where are we at schedule-wise?  Can I sign up for a chapter?


thanks!  MB