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

[Mark Kohut]

I, too, take notes elsewhere in my older age. Some marked books from my youth mark me. recently I opened some old marked books from my youth. Remembered some marked , underlined perceptions BUT NOT THE BOOK! Trees, forest problem. 

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> On Dec 22, 2014, at 6:51 PM, msacha1121 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 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:
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>> 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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