incentive

[Mark Kohut]

First tidbit of secret knowledge will drop when/if I get a critical
majority mass of pledges. Before the Read even starts. (I'm not THAT mean).
Prime the pumps. Get you all wanting more and working for it.
Pointsman-like combined with I.G Farben.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Gene DA <genevievej.da at gmail.com> wrote:

> That certainly piques my interest! And a little incentive does wonders.
> Since I've committed myself in writing already, I have no problem with
> making a pledge of some kind.
>
> And I suppose as long as some element (2 or more?) of the group that
> starts does go to the end continuing to post, that counts, and the secret
> knowledge gets dropped?
>
> Currently waiting to receive my copy in the mail.
>
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I did my best to keep the last abortive M&D group read going - to no
>> avail. But I'll do my best to jump in here and there, provided it starts in
>> December. No time in November!
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2017 1:05 PM, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You know how the Nudgers are always saying things like "if people pledge
>>> to do something, like vote"
>>> many more will over those who do not pledge?
>>>
>>> Well, here's the deal. If I get ALL who have voted for the M & D Group
>>> Read to 'pledge' to keep on keeping on
>>> with it, despite life's intrusions, stopping out of reading or posting
>>> but knowing you will--have to-- come back--
>>> responding to some posts you don't make; confessing to laziness but
>>> promising self-overcoming and trying again,
>>> and so on; a few to keep moving that chain to the end, THEN
>>>
>>> I will share something I know that is UNIQUE about the fact of the
>>> novel; something in no books or articles (yet); something the Golden Agers
>>> (and Silver Agers)
>>> have already read in a post from me but might like to lodge in
>>> unforgettable memory again---and might like to comment on in some
>>> meta M & D way. Something which might take a fair amount of lucky
>>> looking in the archives to find.
>>>
>>> If yu'all pledge, I will share it again.
>>>
>>> And, I will have something else IF we do complete the Read.
>>>
>>
>
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