Was there talk of a BE read?

[David Morris]

If you start that soon (today, Weds), I won’t be joining you for a bit.
But seeing that no structure or schedule has been proposed, much less
agreed to, I’d suggest getting some basics like that done first.

David Morris

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 11:32 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Thought i sniffed the 4711 cologne in the  air.
> >
> > Who’s assigning bits?
> >
> > I’d like to participate, please.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael Lee Bailey
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