Linear as you like / SMMJ / where’s Bekah?

[Raphael Saltwood]

Mark Kohut:
Anyone up for a Group Read before it is too late to save our pale
prejudices?

Cagliostro the Impossible:

(“I'm going to be completely honest as I sit here writing, my memory is a little fuzzy since 1966. It goes in and out. I remember Manhattan Beach, and that tall vaguely Zappa looking fellow, a writer of some note...Mr. Pynchon, I presume? I do remember the acid I was on with the Mothers of Invention Freak Out spinning on the turntable, then in 1967 the return of Barnabas Collins (look out Willie Loomis!), followed by some strange scenes inside the Canyon.
In 1973, our hero publishes his magnum opus Gravity's Rainbow, so exciting and so much to talk about!”

—- good times!)


> But in all honesty, yes I would indeed be all for a group read of Ishmael Reed,
perhaps start with Mumbo Jumbo?
>>
>> I cede the floor to the committee!


Hear hear.

For your consideration, it’s got 55 chapters, an epilogue and a “partial bibliography”

57 weeks?

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Subjective memories of Mumbo Jumbo:

Referred to a bad guy as 200 lbs of toxic waste

Jes grew

“Look at the Mormons [they concocted a myth] and they got Utah”

Iirc was pretty fun to read, if you like that kind of thing

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Hope Bekah is okay, didn’t she have an early encounter with the COVID?