One suggestion for the Group Read

[John Bailey]

Wise words by Ish. The last few group reads have seen me try to keep
up early on but inevitably there comes a time when work or life is
pressing and I delete a bunch of posts unread. From there comes the
creeping feeling that anything I might add will be redundant as it was
probably hashed out in those deleted emails, and then there's already
a bunch more arriving, and it gets too much to bother...


On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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