Was there talk of a BE read?

[Joseph Tracy]

The proposed schedule is a chapter every 4 days with people volunteering as we move along. I’m sure Mike wil be willing to delay the starting date which got confused because my email provider had a server breakdown. Or we can just take some extra days after initial posts to see how many can/will join and then move on to a steadier pace. I think if we jump in we can self organize as we go. I am certainly open to change but really hope we will try a faster pace to see how that works. 

David, as to your other question about the Chumps of Choice that group is long disbanded.  The whole thing is still  on the web( https://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com <https://chumpsofchoice.blogspot.com/> ).   It might be worth looking at to see what you think about how it was done. It was fun and people took turns with administrative responsibilities. The differences of approach, and civility of disagreement made it a rich experience for me. Blog style so photos were an option which was great because of the time period of ATD. The blog site is a fairly classy record of a group book read of Thomas Pynchon with a smal active participation. I was Brooktrout. 

> On Nov 3, 2021, at 8:39 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> David Morris
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> On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 11:32 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto: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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Others?
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> Input?
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> > On Oct 30, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com <mailto: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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