{"id":481,"date":"2007-01-30T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/30\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T12:51:58","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/30\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to The Against the Day Deathmarch — a mass-tackle of Pynchon’s latest tome. This is our fifth deathmarch, and I haven’t been this excited about an onine mass read of a challenging book since, well, since we tackled Gravity’s Rainbow<\/b><\/a> back in January, 2005.
\nI’ve read the first few pages of AtD, and I can report from the trailhead that it doesn’t start out in nearly as dense a thicket as Gravity’s Rainbow. But it does appear to share at least three things with GR: (1) silly names packed with portent (“Darby Suckling”), (2) a new character every 7 sentences, and (3) something particularly startling or amusing on every page. “lavatorial assaults from the sky,” “the brighter star-shapes of exploded ballast-bags,” “The Great Bovine City of the World”? What’s not to like?
\nUm…OK, but how’s this whole deathmarch thing work again?<\/b>
\nHere’s a quick recap for new folks….
\nShort version: read, comment, finish, get a prize.
\nLonger version: comment on every thread from this week till the end, and finish the book, and you qualify for your choice of either an AtDDM mug or magnet. (Capped at 30 winners to protect my children’s college fund.) Comments can range from erudite analysis to content-free exclamations. “I’ve fallen woefully behind” counts as a comment. Not a great comment. But a comment. Try not to get very far ahead. And if you have zipped ahead, be sure not to get past that week’s reading in your comments. Every Tuesday I’ll post a new thread, and it all starts up again.
\nNext Tuesday<\/b>: Let’s meet up at the bottom of page 56, where “the temperature” is “headed down.”
\n(In other words, use this thread to comment on pages 0-56. Try to finish reading that part of the book and to comment here by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nMerry ‘marching,
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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