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[Raphael Saltwood]

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From: Mark Kohut

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

— seconded

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.

Maybe 10 pages a week broken around sections?


  *    seems reasonable


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