New pad?

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Mar 10 08:06:35 UTC 2024


I would do a CoL49 group reread. I will be presenting a lifelong learning
lunch lecture locally this fall.

On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 12:14 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I’m inclined to veer off into a hiatus on SLPAD - not that “Entropy” is too
> dark, I think it might even be interpretable as kind of funny with an
> affirmation of sorts hidden amongst the dark despair (ie, I haven’t
> relinquished my ur-position on depressing fiction which is, “hey, you’re
> making it up, how hard would it be to give us a happy ending, eh?” - but
> I’m learning to find something to like about less-than-cheery stories
> anyway)
>
> Last night I unearthed a post from way back, wherein JT expressed an
> interest in an expedition up the slopes of CoL48 & this spring might be a
> fun time for some of that.
>
> If anyone is interested in a group read we could do a linear,
> chunk-assigning type of one.
>
> Or some variation on that.
>
> Or a shaggy-dog kind of approach just beaming out of the lease-breaking
> party and into Oedipa’s kitchen (which I will probably start Monday if
> nobody latches onto a group action by then)(but could happily transition to
> something more organized at any point)
>
>
> Cheers and may spring fever be a pleasant experience for us folks this
> year: 40 zillion plants can’t be wrong!
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