group read idea - "this piece of paper...

Raphael Saltwood PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com
Sun Apr 12 04:35:17 UTC 2020


...'s got 47 words, 15 sentences, we want to know the details of the crime, arresting officer, all the kind of things you want to say..."

There are some really enjoyable previous group reads if you look back...that Andrew Dinn and Bonnie Surfus consistently knocked the ball out of the park; Toby's 3 pages a day M&D also fab, many others also -

can't imitate or duplicate those

despite free time perhaps others also feel a bit scattered, worried,

but ---tentatively -
less ergodic idea - a little different, non-linear -
boldly proposing a schedule as follows

1) 4/13 - musical, Tubal and movie references (your name here?)

2) 4/15 - labor, protest, PR3 references

3) 4/17 - Vietnam references (RC, Vato & Blood, etc)

4) 4/19 - Frenesi and DL

5) 4/21 - Frenesi and BV

6) 4/23 - Frenesi and Zoyd

7) 4/25 Prairie qua Prairie & Prairie vis a vis Frenesi, I24, Sister Rochelle,

8) 4/27 - Zoyd's friendly interactions, brief annotated census (tentatively I would like this one)

9) 4/29 - DL and Takeshi

10) 5/1 - Is there a moral, and if so, what is it? Ethical takeaways?

11) 5/3 -  is the D&G fakebook more than a throwaway reference? Are there philosophical / theoretical / religious underpinnings & if so, what, how and why?

Would welcome any constructive or deconstructive suggestions -
seems to me like it could be a quick and fun read, non-comprehensive on purpose

could stretch it out (a week, 2, a month?)
or compress (1 day apiece!)



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