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

[Mark Kohut]

O Becky....so sorry for all the travail ..and danger and the illness of
your granddaughter. Please all get well soon...

Since I brought up the Group Read of *Mumbo Jumbo, *and I am happy some
here want to, I'll own the start of it
unless someone else wants to go first.....my copy, Scribner paperback, is
218 pages with then a partial bibliography!
never noticed before. And have you ever seen in a fiction? First thing to
noticce.

.....maybe some might supplement with some readings from within those
books. (I've got a
v good interlibrary loan university in my town and it is right across the
street).

Re: pace. Some of those sections are less than a page and I don't yet know
how densely intriguing they might be.
Although the beginning is allusively, curiously intriguing and commentary
might unfold like Jes Grew does in section 3...
I like it already a lot...

Maybe 10 pages a week broken around sections? Or only 5 pages a week, same
thing re section approximation
 and time for whatever backing and filling we do?

Vote. We are an anarchist democracy here, known as a direct one.


On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:00 AM Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Here I am  -  I didn’t have the Covid but I had surgery which eventually
> forced me to move  (in June) to a tiny town in North Dakota (about 50 miles
> south of Canada) to be closer to family and where my granddaughter is now
> confined with the Covid.  Granddaughter's parents, a school teacher and a
> farmer, are also confined.  And my mother is also here, also confined, but
> to a nursing home.  No Covid for me yet but I’m very cautious - kind of
> isolated.
>
> I’m up for a read of Mumbo Jumbo - sounds fun.
>
> Bekah/Becky
>
>
> > On Oct 22, 2020, at 12:11 AM, Raphael Saltwood <
> PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > ————
> >
> > 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
> >
> > —————
> >
> > Hope Bekah is okay, didn’t she have an early encounter with the COVID?
> >
> >
> >
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>
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