M&D Duck - schedule -

[Mark Kohut]

ALL---

Been reading something on coffeehouses and their role in
The West. People met, talked freely, argued, some a little some a lot
and............

I thought of the Plist in this age. The Plist coffeehouse. Remember:
it is an anarchic gathering, it don't matter how you host, all forms are
fine, all ways are the way, jump in/aboard.



On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Becky,
>
> yes, we will make it work.  I hoped for a discussion and voting on a
> time consensus from us, if possible.
> -- 3-sections at a time, but for one or two weeks each?
>
>
> For a number of reasons, and you just added another, since to take
> sections 10 thru 12 in February means first 3 Hosts would be done
> before February at one week apiece.
> How about this, y'all? TWO full weeks per small three sections,
> allowing lots of posts and responses for those with full life/work
> schedules.....?
> UNLESS the Host wants/needs only a week? They can determine---real
> social democrat here---and announce whenever....then next can move up
> or we will have a Bye/Catch-up week??
>
> We, even lurkers, have to not lose reading focus over that amount of
> time or entropy sets in. That party house stasis in P's ENTROPY.
> Say Something. Call me out for my fanboy 'speculations'. I'll have to
> defend myself, THEN the real consensus begins.
> My tease: I have an INSIDE story re the book's publication. Act excited!
>
> Don't forget. All of any other discussions can happen on the
> wide-ranging Plist at the same virtual time.
>
> So, I am so ready, so full of hot air--another Pynchon trope--that I
> can take two weeks at the start and STILL won't be done, MAYBE. The
> book is SO RICH (as we know; as many of you have championed.) The
> famously infamous Harold Bloom rated it higher than GR (no flaws in M
> & D). I rate it 3rd (but was my hardest to read and 'get". Hence this
> Read) . Make me change my mind. (joke. who cares about that but me?)
>
> Sign up for a section even if you are too busy. One way of hosting is
> to just ask any questions that occur, have occurred, so others jump
> in.
>
> So, so far:
>
> Jan 3 (Saturday) thru jan 17    Kohut, Sections 1--3 .....thru p. 29
> Jan 18  thru ????                     Kelber      "         4--6.... thru p. 57
>                                                     ??          "
>   7--9...  thru p. 93
> February ???                           Lindroos    "       10-12..  thru p 124
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> I'll be glad to take slots but the thing is I need to have January off as well as June because of vacations, etc.  I can't tell when those would be by your list - it doesn't even say when we start.  Do these work with my constraints?
>>
>> 10: 94-104, 11: 105-115, 12: 116-124,
>> 34: 341-348, 35: 349-361, 36: 362-370
>>
>> Bekah
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