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

[Mateus Domingos]

I usually fall behind with these, so i've made a start already!
I had been making progress through Antkind, but it sure is nice to jump
into Mumbo Jumbo.
10 pages a week sounds good.
I have a digital version and it's available to borrow from
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24214584M/Mumbo_jumbo

best,
mateus

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 11:04, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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