Fwd: CoL49 Group Reading

[Mark Kohut]

How about a schedule that starts on Saturday, April 16? .....yes, at five
pages a week, no spoilers ahead
---HAHA,--- in the writing?




---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: CoL49 Group Reading
To: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>


If you want to have a group read with only one participant, then make a
schedule pronouncement, instead of asking for a group consensus

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 3:08 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest that you have a start day that was not yesterday. Already I'm a
> day behind and I haven't bought my new pristine copy of Lot 49 so
> I can really read it anew....and I had a busy week planned already without
> reading any pages of Lot 49...and 5 pages is not much to read, granted, but
> as the saying goes it is the thinking about, the checking, the writing
> about that takes time.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 7:03 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,Having just recently returned to this list serve, I noticed a
> > thread in the March archives titled New Pad that suggested a group
> reading
> > of CoL49. Someone suggested 5 pages a week. In case others join there
> would
> > be plenty of segments; 5 pages
> > is bound to have a week’s worth of idea production.Assuming that 5 pages
> > is enough for a week and that I’ll host the first few weeks, here are
> some
> > questions and ideas to masticate as we read this week.If naming the main
> > character Oedipa alludes to Oedipus Rex, what is the plague that drives
> her
> > to solve the riddle/case?
> > How do Mucho Maas' self-recriminations reflect an alternative to Oedipa's
> > Tupperware world?
> > How are we to interpret the three images that come to Oedipa when she
> > first receives the letter (Mazatlan hotel door, Bartok Concerto, Jay
> Gould
> > bust)?
> > Is there a pattern to Pierce Inverarity's various voices in his cryptic
> > phone call? If so, how does that pattern connect to the quest?So let’s
> post
> > our thoughts over the week as we read, and I’ll post new questions next
> > Sunday.Names of people interested based on ‘new pad’ thread in
> > archive:David MorrisMark KohutMichael BaileyJoseph TracyNeal FutzJemmie
> > BloocherI hope this sparks some interest. Never tried this before so
> please
> > offer suggestions and criticisms.
> > In solidarity
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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