One suggestion for the Group Read

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks Ish. Experience and wisdom and a fine argument, so nicely written.
I can be a  major offender and have talked like I will be, so I will try not
to be. I guess I was feeling neglected since about no one says anything
about these story and
Lot 49 bits, so I am projecting my continued soloing. (OK, whining, but I
stopped now. No one else is
reading Lot 49 and the stories right now and I am focusing on stuff ya
gotta know cold--I didn't--or look up.
Won't be that way with GR Group Read)

I have a lot of notes for GR already so I will prioritize and won/t,
as I wrote, try to get
every little thought on the record as I indicated.

Smart commentary means judicious triage of comments I now accept as better.

 I will send my posts around separated in time during the day, rather than
most in the early morning as I do now.

(At the moment, I save most that I write and send the next morning. I need
something to make me jump out of bed.)

I'm just impatient today, with the snow.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 3:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You open your email and find you have 200 emails on day one and this
> keeps up for a week, then tapers a bit, explodes again and again, then
> it thins to near silence and the group read fails.
>
> This is not what happened way back in the beginning or for a decade or
> more as folks worked through book after book with creative generosity,
> and, with only the occasion flame war or heavy duty fight,  did some
> remarkable reads,  but it is what happened to several more recent
> attempts, despite herculean efforts by one or two individuals to keep
> the ball bouncing.
>
> There is so much stuff we can all toss into the discussion daily. And
> that's fun and beautiful and who needs any rules or regulations. This
> is, as advertised, a fabulous orgy.
>
> But, my grama's giant but, but can we maybe keep the volume down in
> the first few sections just because we will lose too many people if we
> stuff them with 300 a day.
>
> Not suggesting any limits or rules or editing or monitoring but just
> that we all recognize that if we flood the space early we may not have
> any human voices left to awaken to when the mermaids arrive to waft us
> all to shore.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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