CoL49 Group Reading

[Michael Bailey]

April 16 is a Tuesday

Just sayin’

Fine with me, though



On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 5:02 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> April 16th sounds great. Same questions.
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> On Monday, April 8, 2024, 03:47, James Robertson <
> jamesjohnrobertson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm in
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> > On 8/04/2024, at 19:08, 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
> >>
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