Nudge, nudge, gentle readers, just to be clear.

[Joseph Tracy]

I don’t think we ever made it to M&D’s arrival in America last time. Perhaps we might move quickly through the early part of the book and move in general at  a faster pace.  Does anyone else agree that our pace needs to speed up? Other suggestions for how to read?  Another idea is to give  say 3 weeks to a large chunk of text  then discuss that whole  section for a week. People could post comments as they read and get as focused as they like but with  nobody responsible for a given portion.  Maybe divide the whole thing into 3 or 4  3-week chunks?
   
> On Oct 17, 2017, at 5:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote
> MK: I'm not starting the [M & D] Read.
> 
> MK: I like it so I hope if we do almost everyone jumps into the dance. 
> I  will. 
> 
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> Meanwhile, I want to highly recommend a book in which Melanie Jackson 
> appears on the last acknowledgments page. With therefore hints that
> maybe her shadow reader husband was involved in parts? *
> 
> That book is AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE by Sarah Bakewell. 
> "No ideas but in people", one might adapt WCWilliams' remark to describe this book. 
> 
> Wherein one of the interesting, but minor things I learned, was that the CIA
> got the dying Franz Fanon out of Algeria to a hospital in Bethesda MD, where
> he did die. at 38.
> 
> 
> * In which I also learned that Heidegger had a "They/Them" as controllers of us all in some of his writing,
> I think in the later work, The Question of Technology. In which I learned that a writer on human beings and computers named
> Dreyfus evidently wrote a very good book in 2001 on why "the Internet is THE technological innovation that
> most clearly reveals what technology is". Which makes a reader of BLEEDING EDGE want to read it. 
> 
> PS I think this guy is Herbert Dreyfus, I'm not looking anything up, who I remember reading much earlier than 2001; a book about computers and beings
> in which I think he predicted that a machine could not beat the best chess players which gave me hope until they did. (But
> I may have a self-created memory of Herb) 

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