“‘Come in to the Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch Chat Thread,’ said the spider… et cetera…”
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The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 6, Book thread
Hey presto: Week 6!
Welcome back from the break. Thanks to so-called “Bill” for the suggestion — it just in time for me. I finally caught up last night — for the first time in, oh about 6 weeks. For anyone still a ways back, the good news is that the trail from around 200-278 has struck most folks as a tad easier on the brain than, the opening stretch. Though perhaps not easier on the stomach….
This is the spot for bookly comments. Here’s one tidbit to startcha off: “Mindless Pleasures” (a phrase found on page 270 (p) was once the book’s working title. True that.
Chat thread coming shortly….
Next week: Let’s meet up at page 329 (p/v) (Bantam page # coming in a bit), with the section that ends “Enzian is heading into the North….” See ya there, -CV -
Snacktime
Had a vegan chocolate chip cookie at lunch today
and it was delicious, you know? But I felt kind of guilty.
About all those vegans. -
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 5, Chat Thread
“so much depends
upon
a Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch Chat Thread
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.” -
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 5, Book Thread
In last week’s comments, so-called “Bill” made the excellent suggestion that we use this week to give folks a chance to catch up, rest, recuperate. Consider this “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch Picnic in a Trench by the Side of the Road.” Enjoy the break and use this thread for bookly comments. I’ll post a chat thread just above.
This also represents a catch-up moment mug-wise — ifn you’re missing one week in your prize qualifications, post this week and get back in the game….
See you next Tuesday at page 278 (p),
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The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 4, Chat thread
“You best start believing in chat threads for Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarches, Miss Turner; you’re in one.”
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The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 4, Book thread
Welcome to Week 4. We’re holding pretty steady with something close to 20 people still on the march. Not bad at all… Most of us, me included, are a little bit behind. My current strategy is to catch up by skipping every other word on pages 250-300. We’ll see how that goes.
The comments flew fairly fast and furious last week — 34 of ’em, if you add all three threads together. Thanks for your patience with my monkeying around, thread-wise. In the end, the split thread approach seemed to work pretty well. Let’s try it for one more week and see how that shakes out. It’s all one big experiment, doncha know.
For now, this is the spot to have at it re pages 160-230 (p/v) or so.
Next week: See you at page 278 (penguin/viking) aka 323 (bantam). -CV -
What the people did last night
They went driving in the rain.
They watched it fall down
on jelly-eyed twenty-eight-years-olds in gold paisley coats,
side-burned thirty-seven-year-olds in suspect camping gear,
fit fifty-year-olds wearing thick, graying furs plucked from cardboard boxes.
Early on, almost at the very first beat,
the rhythm section took their jackets off.
Red shirt, tan shirt. Suspenders. Brown towels in easy reach.
About an hour later, the piano player followed suit,
folded his coat up neatly, leaned over,
laid it to rest during the drum solo.
And now here they are — the whole gang.
They’re lighting flat matches in dry marble corners.
Thigh-high boots over too-bare skin.
Balds heads, stylized facial hair.
Then a busload of high school band kids
hauled up from San Diego
pours out all over the sidewalk.
Clarinet players. Trumpets players. Sax.
And the aged. And the infirm.
Oxygen tanks.
Wooden legs.
All rolled in to hear
some jazz sincere
on a wide stage. -
GRDM, Week 3 — Book thread
Hi,
Per the previous entry, this is the spot to post re the latest chunk of Gravity’s Rainbow. For chat, please scroll down to the next entry below.
Note: And for completists, don’t forget to take a stroll through the first batch of comments this week, over in the original Week 3 thread.
Thankee, -Cecil