Arrggh

[Laura Kelber]

Picked up a copy of Pnin at my local bookseller today. I'll be reading it
at my own leisurely rate, but will definitely comment here, with spoiler
warnings, when moved to.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:04 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Gang,
>
> Why don't we try another Group read after our hiatus? Of this novel. It can
> be looser than our
> tight group reads. We who have read it, can pick it up again and remember
> aloud online a bit.
>
> Newbies can be as appreciative and full of quotes from it and remarks about
> it as they want and can.
> if Laura chooses to read it, she knows the drill, can modify it and be the
> leaderless leader. So to speak.
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:50 AM James Robertson <james at themutedposthorn.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Pnin is wonderful
> >
> >
> > @jamesjrobertson
> > themutedposthorn.com
> >
> > sent from iphone
> >
> > > On 8/11/2019, at 09:23, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Pnin, not Ada, even if Mark says so.
> > >
> > >> Am Do., 7. Nov. 2019 um 18:42 Uhr schrieb Laura Kelber <
> > >> laurakelber at gmail.com>:
> > >>
> > >> I've read Pale Fire and Lolita. Ada or Pnin next?
> > >>
> > >>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 4:40 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> It made me think of a line in a fine book by an author who was
> perhaps
> > a
> > >>> little too full of himself:
> > >>>
> > >>> With the help of the janitor he screwed on to the side of the desk a
> > >>> pencil
> > >>> sharpener--that highly satisfying, highly philosophical instrument
> that
> > >>> goes ticonderoga-ticonderoga, feeding on the yellow finish and sweet
> > wood,
> > >>> and ends up in a kind of soundlessly spinning ethereal void as we all
> > >>> must.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Am Di., 5. Nov. 2019 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb John Bailey <
> > sundayjb at gmail.com
> > >>>> :
> > >>>
> > >>>> I loved this line in the original email and read it a bunch of
> times.
> > >>>> Many thanks.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:15 AM Raphael Saltwood
> > >>>> <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> ...few indeed forward to the shuffling off of whose mortal coil one
> > >>> less
> > >>>> eagerly looks...,
> > >>>>>
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