Division of The Recognitions

[Richard Ryan]

I'll take Chapter 3.  Chapter 2 is short - maybe 20 pages.  Good for
someone who would like to participate but can't commit to doing 50
pages of textual analysis in two weeks (and who could? We are a small
dog chasing a VERY big car....)

Will also post this over on the Gaddis list...

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I hope Erik Burns and others on the Gaddis list are in---but they might have
> been there, done that, HARD.
> Steve Moore, too busy with new work to lead this read, right? NYPublic Library
> has your book. Speed-read it
> DECADES after forgetting most of the novel which I hardly got the first read....
>
> Loved that Brenda find, Erik.  Hope somebody posts it on the Pynchon
> wiki....perfect.
>
> I'll jump in first. Part 1, Chap 1......
>
> Put my jaw out there to be laughed at---like that big-jawed guy on MASH---
> or to take the punches like a dummy.
>
> And then I'll take another later chapter, if one stays open..............
>
> Gimme an R.......
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
> To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 2:37:00 PM
> Subject: Division of The Recognitions
>
> Recongitiones est omnis divisa in partes tres...
>
> The three parts break out as follows:
>
> Part I - 7 chapters
> Part II -  9 chapters
> Part III - 6 chapters, although the last chapter is unnumbered and unnamed
>
> ....or a total of 22 reading section (I'm pretty sure I have this
> right, but there's no table of contents, and I might have missed a
> chapter flipping through).  Were we to start on April 1 and take two
> weeks per chapter, it would essentially take us a bit more than nine
> months to finish.  In other words, we'd have to rush to complete the
> book before the Mayan branded end of the world.
>
> A  big commitment at 955 pages (not including the "extra credit"
> intro....).   I'll send out a sign up in a day or two and see if we
> get enough takers to justify the attempt.
>
> [All references are to the 1993 Penguin Classics edition with the
> introduction by William H. Gass]
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