You want to slow Time?

[Steven Koteff]

Of course I remember this now. Apologies for the waste of time. Hopefully I, where I goeth in my ignorance, I help to save someone else from having to go with their own. 

At the risk of, yet again... Has a definite revised starting date been proposed/floated?

As a sort of taking-on of responsibility I can set up a google doc or something so people can see a floating, real-time schedule and sign themselves up for sprockets. I am naturally fucking allergic to schedules or timeliness, but maybe other people like/benefit from stuff like this? And anyway I really want to stick with it myself, so maybe this'll help. 

Thing is, I really would like to admin one/several sprockets in the sense that I want to provide an especially close reading, and share those thoughts, and hear other people respond--I mean, I want that for the whole thing, in addition to a few elevated/highlighted sections. But also I have been uncharacteristically busy with, like, dayjob stuff, and also I know the way I tend to have an unstable personal life which often keeps me from committing to things like this. In short, I am not sure beyond maybe like once or twice/day communication, I would be the best at engaging/administrating a real-time conversation. 

> On Jan 23, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Your answer. So far. 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> 
>> 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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