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

[Erik T. Burns]

the fact that this may be harder than it sounds

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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