NP; "All of life is leap and recoil, recoil and leap"--Ducks, Newburyport

[Mark Kohut]

We're at the leap stage:

In a willful diversion from other news, I am going to get to 'teach'
it, *Ducks,
Newburyport*  or lead (from in front and from behind) two discussion
groups on it a week---we decided rather than pick day or evening and lose
the maximum number of
attendees (surely a small number anyway) , I will do a day and evening
every week.

 As far as I know from limited twitter book sphere---but* Ducks,
Newburyport*
twitter I am VERY in touch with (thru the publisher's retweeting
account)---the first in the English-speaking world.
Observations, allusions, consensus opinions and best discussions will be
taken down (as best we can) and will become some kind of "book"--a pdf
online at least.
A study guide. a teacher's guide, a wiki? an appreciation to send the
author! ?

I always wanted to be one of the first ones to read *Ulysses *(with Stuart
Gilbert and his insider's position) with a group--and other
great or near-great books (I was involved in a few in my publishing career
but no group readings. Until later Pynchon online)

*Ducks* sits squatly and fully on the streaming page, streaming
consciousness, in homage to *Ulysses* and Woolf and others.
I feel, or want to feel, like Stuart Gilbert.

The book may be a masterpiece. If not, it's close enough for sitting ducks.

Details to come.


If non-locals want to join in, I'll do Google docs.