EXTRA! EXTRA! Get Your Group Read Here! Single up all lines NOW.

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I think we're all hoping for, counting on, looking forward to your over-preparation, Mark! Gloomy, blustery March (or maybe arid or tropical March, due to climate change?) just got brighter.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jan 8, 2016 3:56 PM
>To: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: EXTRA! EXTRA! Get Your Group Read Here! Single up all lines NOW.
>
>Laura----
>BUT WHAT WILL I  DO UNTIL THEN???
>
>Of course it can and will be postponed starting NOW. It has happened before
>but never quite like this time with lotsa promises to take part, w
>short bits and
>no presumption of lotsa prep. I hope.    (Hey, I would schedule it for 2020 if
>we would get a quorum that lasts.) I was just gonna start reading it again and
>start posting whatever, so now I'll hold my posts behind and post on another
>book or three.
>
>So, first week of  March? Ides of March might be propitious.
>
>I know what I will probably do in the meantime. Overprepare so I can drive
>everyone away when we start.
>
>And, since I wanted a cold jump start, I threw myself in first. BUT, I will
>let that honor go to you, or whoever else wants to go first, if you don't.
>
>ALL---don't let the move build up static mental energy and fears and doubts
>and whatevers so that real interest is gone by March.
>
>Until We Meet Again,
>Mark
>
>On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:09 AM, kelber at mindspring.com
><kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Mark, I'd love to do a Beyond the Zero read, but, since no one's signed up
>> yet, can I talk you into postponing it until, say, March? I like your
>> suggested breakdown.
>>
>> LK
>>
>>
>> Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Before "it is too late". ---page 3, line 3.
>>
>> GROUP READ of Beyond the Zero section of GR.
>> In Memory of Dave Monroe and James Kyllo & because Laura Kelber.
>>
>> From scene to scene, sprockets to sprockets, as they were first
>> thought to be.  (But they're not. Who knows what they mean?)
>> One week per sprocket bracket (since almost all have read it already,
>> right, many more than once?).    Pick your sprocket below.
>>
>> Starting now. Short sections. The Big Short. Martin Short.
>> You can improvise day-by-day, they are so short,  no need to prep
>> within your busy life.Just point and ask questions and the smart
>> under-posters will give the answers. Ask our translators.  A--and the
>> bloviators will blow. So you will have a breather. Did I say short?
>> Did I say improvise? Did I say "Self, no need to say everything you
>> think should go on record, anything more than zero on the page is
>> better than zero and the beyond is still beyond."
>>
>> Jan 8--16          Pp 3--8      Mark Kohut, intrepid bloviator.
>> Jan 17-23         pp 8--17
>> Jan 24--31      pp 17--20
>> (yes, only 3-4 pages; time already for catch-up after everyone jumps
>> in with their overarching GR experiences and perceptions)
>>
>> Feb 7--14      pp 20-30
>> Feb 14-21     pp 30-38
>> Feb 21-27     pp 38-42
>>
>> Feb 28-Mar 5    pp 42-48
>> Mar 6 -- 12        pp 48-54
>> Mar 13-19        pp 54-61
>> Mar 20-26        pp 61-72
>> Mar 27-Apr 2     pp72--74
>>
>> Apr 3--9            pp 74-85
>> Apr 10-16         pp 85-94
>> Apr 17 -23        pp 94-116
>>
>> Spring break (and or catch-up with longest section)
>> May 1--7           pp 116--121
>> May 8-14          pp 122--139
>> May 15-21        pp 139-147
>> May 22-28        pp 147- 156
>> May 29-Ju 4     pp 156  --170
>>
>> Ju 5 -11            pp 179--177
>> Ju 12--19          pp 177-180       Mark Kohut, past riverrun, etc.
>> (Will auction off an overarching
>>                                                     summary to the
>> first person who asks.)
>>
>> This pagination is from the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, Miller cover.
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