BE Schedule? please

[Michael Bailey]

For my money, let’s keep going by the chapters.
And 4 days is perfect imho: long enough to do some salutary damage, but not
long enough to completely ruin it.
(-;
5 months isn’t that long. Used to be a 400 page book was a tome, BE’s a
shorty compared to AtD but it’s chock-a-block with happenstances and verbal
felicities.



On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:42 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> So far we seem to have Keith D, John B , Michael B, Joseph T, Mike W (
> hoping for Mark K to join too) who seem willing and interested to do a
> group read. Most have read the book recently. Once again I advocate for a
> fast read, 7-8 pages a day with a focus on why did TP write this book,  why
> did I, the reader, keep reading, and what is he trying to accomplish, what
> questions is he asking, what patterns is he pointing out, why do we care
> about the characters, the situations etc.? Obviously this also serves as a
> review of a soul shaking event and the weirdness that preceded and followed
> 9-11.  There’s a dark sadness that is part of this package.    all
> digressions and any new participants welcome  Let's be friendly , be
> respectful, accept disagreement and move on
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> So what about a schedule? I had proposed a vote    A) 4 days per chapter (
> 5.5 months)  B) 2 days per chapter ( 2 months)  C) 7 Pages a day( 2-3 days
> per chapter)( about 2.5 months)   I do think we should organize reading by
> chapters to keep the flavor of Pynchon's decisions about dividing the
> action.
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> So please lets vote quick, keep moving  and then reconsider how it is
> going after 7 chapters. I will be happy to write out a schedule after a
> vote.
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