Was there talk of a BE read?

[Joseph Tracy]

My email provider’s server went out sunady so i has been several days since I wrote this. The daes would have to be adjusted but I just wanted to see if anyone Michael is interested.

I put out a question a little while back to see who might be interested. We may only get 3 or 4. Love to see more. My idea was to move faster than we usually do, no concern about spoilers, more holistic,  just leaving the floor open for new input as we move along.  More about digesting and understanding what we can about the novel, and testing ideas against text than than a finegrained study. 
How about we start with 4 days per chapter and if that is not working make adjustments.   If people go deeper into sentence by sentence, or a particular sentence/paragraph/pattern we stretch the 4 days to fit the interest.  If someone wants to go back to an  earlier segment just do it. Also looking in the archives as we move along might be fun. Suggestion:The audible version moves right along if people have a hard time making time to read.  Each host can decide where their focus lies and others can add. I was in a group read of ATD called Chumps of Choice where each host of the segment did a minimal summary. quite nice IMO. I will also be putting out at  the beginning a list of most characters with description and key story roles. More through than the Pynchon wiki, I think.


Tentative plan
start in 4 days on Wednesday November3
Michael if you are up for 1st chapter I will take the second on the 7th Nov

Others?

Input?




> On Oct 30, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote
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> Thought i sniffed the 4711 cologne in the  air.
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> Who’s assigning bits?
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> I’d like to participate, please.
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> Thanks,
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> Michael Lee Bailey
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