CoL49 Group Reading - Week 1 Summary & Questions

[Michael Bailey]

Even better

On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 10:37 AM J K Van Nort <jkvannort at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I’m fine with dumping the summary, but are we also saying that we’re not
> finishing CoL49? While I’m all for continuing the group read into GR, I
> still want to finish CoL49 first.
>
> As to questions, many of the posts the first week posed or added
> questions. If we want to eliminate the hosting and just post based on 10
> pages, I support that too.
>
> When we go to GR, 10 pages per week will be less of a concern b/c I
> imagine most of us have a Viking pagination edition.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> James
>
>
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> On Sunday, May 5, 2024, 09:46, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dude …. Wildman!
> Unexpected change-up - nifty idea - giddy-up
>
> I think that’s your idea here, switch to GR seamlessly, not spilling a
> drop?
>
> Also easing the host burden by removing the synopsis (or making it
> optional if anyone likes doing them?)
>
>
>
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> On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM O G <octogonalyoyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I happen to agree with this.
> >
> > As unsavory a phrase as "licking his chops" may be, especially with Pyn,
> > that's the feeling I get reading 49.  He was just warming up.
> >
> > So why not do the one that was...not a drill?  The one where he actually
> > bites in.  Let's see how the author does with the second war, rather than
> > sad suburban housewives.
> >
> > I don't recall much of GR, if anything, so I'll start.
> >
> > Ten pages a week.  The thing with the summary of the ten pages at the
> start
> > of the week isn't necessary.  It's almost as fast to just read the ten
> > pages.  Summaries are a lot like summaries.
> >
> > Questions are always, questions questions.
> >
> > Questions don't have to be great or good, or remotely anything, just
> > questions.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:29 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> > wrote
> > >
> > > *“But making a leap from obscurity to metaphor seems unwarranted.”*
> > >
> > > Ah! You have fallen unintentionally upon the central metaphor of this
> > > novel!  It is almost a perfect restating of the metaphor of Oedepa’s
> > > journey:  Conspiracy is a key metaphor for the search for existential
> or
> > > spiritual or realistic or ANY kind of significance in one’s everyday
> > > experience.
> > >
> > > Trust me: Pynchon was only licking his chops with this one. He is
> quoted
> > as
> > > aiming for GR to keep the scholars stroking their chins like they did
> for
> > > Ulysses.
> > >
> > >
> > > His gift to the readers of his pre-internet books, read in pre-internet
> > > times, was to give them a nodding acquaintance with the obscure and the
> > > hidden, and to point them ( as he did for Oedipa) towards unseen
> > > connections.
> > >
> > > I don't believe that he was trying to become his own obscure material;
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes, I know, he was a student (i. e. he sat in his
> > > lectures for one course) of Nabokov.
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