A way to Group Read Mason & Dixon, so to speak.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 16:06:57 CST 2014


And there is having a drink with your old self, the slow learner.....

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Different notes (or none) for different foax. As so often cited, "A former
> self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no more
> turn him out than you'd turn out any other kind of cripple, would you?"
> (Enzian, GR 662)
>
> For those who care, the 1997-98 P-list group read of M&D is in the WASTE
> archive -- poor clunky threading and all -- beginning at
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9706&msg=15879&sort=date
>
> And of course the Pynchon Wiki is full of line-by-line clarification of
> specific details and pictures of astrolabes and frizzen flints:
>
> http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> Neither link is intended to suggest that this reading shouldn't cover the
> same ground, wrestle with the same points, etc., or that it should be
> annotated, footnoted  and scholarly -- only that there are times when a link
> can both be quicker and go deeper than typing.
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:45 PM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In my pantheon of peeves, this one is near the top. Far be it from saying
>> others shouldn't do it, but I find that it hurts rereads. Tougher to get a
>> reappraisal when your old self is scribbled there telling you what to pay
>> attention to and what to think
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 22, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > LOL!  That's what a whole lot of my books look like -  from The
>> > Annotated Alice through  Rembrandt's Eyes and Underworld (all hard cover &
>> > $$$$).  This obviously includes all of Pynchon's works.
>> >
>> > Bekah
>> >
>> >> On Dec 22, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Elisabeth Romberg <eromberg at mac.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'll have the pen at the ready
>> >>
>> >>> 17. des. 2014 kl. 00.08 skrev Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/dec/03/weapon-for-readers/
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