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

[msacha1121 at gmail.com]

Good citations both and points well taken. One high school era Nietzsche paperback has me scarred. These days the notes go in a book all their own.

Hope the group read goes well, will try to contribute, work and life permitting.

> On Dec 22, 2014, at 5:06 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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