You want to slow Time?

[Mark Kohut]

Steve,

Past, which can be prologue often, sez: Because of being alive, the hosts
set the pace of their posting. The time frame per how many pages has been
proffered and seconded.
Since this List is an example of P's small-bore anarchy (at least; in two
senses) many have always expressed an opinion about the pace, the
whatever.....as the example of moving this spontaneously started one
shows.....some may still...

Just as on this list now, some people catch-up with much older posts and
bring the thread alive anew. Most comment within a day or two or don't. I
presume the Read will be the same since no host has to nor will wait for
all responses before continuing (because can't know).

There can be so many threads the whole tent might look like it is
unravelling or, better metaphor, look like it is being wrapped,
Christo-like, in too much fabric to follow granularly. So many won't, I'm
sure.

My salvo was to warn that I am going to blow my hosting sax like that
aerosol can that flies around the bathroom and breaks mirrors in The Crying
Of Lot 49. As we agree, Pynchon is a maximalist and as Emerson said of
Shakespeare, there is so much there that, like life, we all can touch
experience all over in him and say so.
 My salvo was to say Prepare how you personally will respond to that and I
hope it drives no one off the List or keeps anyone from responding. (if we
keep the threads descriptive. we can all know where to choose to speak---or
not-- or ignore and even delete.)

History: I helped drive off, I am not happy about it, a long-time Plister
who at the impending Bleeding Edge read (i think it was, maybe IV)
complained about too many posts, particularly tweets---and I'm the tweety
bird here, some of which contained SOME v interesting pre-pub stuff and
advance reader remarks, etc. but I'm sure there were too many but that's
what they all said about Pynchon too. (self-parodying smile here) and I
suggested they/me just be deleted but I was not going to stop----and,. get
this, I had an advance copy of those novels yet honored the official
date...moved back even and stretched out in time (but not enough for some)
and so it went---so, like Slothrop, they vanished. I wished they were back.
Had some very interesting takes during the AtD read.

That's (not) All Folks,
Mark

PS This is my first Group Read of Gravity's Rainbow
and I bet it is my/our last so "leaving it all on the field' as Obama
recently said. When I host
and when I respond. I might actually gather the best stuff we put down and
self-publish it. !





On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Speaking of, has there been much discussion of the pace of the read? I
> mean, seems most everybody agrees it should proceed slowly, for the sake of
> depth and precision, but what does slowly mean for most people? ~2-3pp/day?
> 5?
>
> Also people, on account of being alive, are going to miss the odd day or
> two, and so you don't want three days' accumulation of GR pages to seem
> prohibitive, insurmountable.
>
> GL with the storm. Chicago is having the mildest winter in recent memory.
>
> > On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Be safe at home, without work to do, in a major snowstorm ALMOST TWO
> MONTHS
> > before the Gravity's Rainbow Group Read. ( I make this sound like it's a
> bad thing and at my age,
> > be nice if time did have a stop)
> >
> > Make this silent promise, you can ignore any, most or all of my GR
> posts, flush away with that
> > giant sucking sound, BUT don't use the too-many-of them to......stop out
> of the Read.
> > Start other GR threads, as is happening all around us now.
>
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