{"id":484,"date":"2007-02-06T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/02\/06\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T12:31:16","slug":"the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/02\/06\/the-against-the-day-deathmarch-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Against the Day Deathmarch, Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I knew Tesla was coming, I might very well have baked a cake. Because, well, you know how much Tesla loves to eat cake.
\nLots of fun this week — excellent comments from an international crew of ‘marchers, plus a promising start to the novel with all sorts of rich plot threads. It sounds like many of us, me included, are thinking “hey — that was actually kinda fun.” But we can’t rename this a “funmarch” can we? That would just be silly. And of course, who knows what lies ’round the bend….?
\nLike several of the commenters, I’ve been making lists of characters. I tend to write “intro so-and-so” in the margin when a new character makes their first appearance. Another habit I picked up when we read Gravity’s Rainbow<\/i> is writing a quick summary of the action on the top of each page. So, for example, page 13 was “naked lady below,” page 42 was “Lew can notice things,” and page 48 was “a fight avoided.”
\nIf the slew of references gets you dizzy, bookmark the AtD wiki<\/b><\/a>. I’m mostly staying in the text and avoiding a ton of extra research, but I did drop by the wiki twice this week — once to find out what a “charabanc” was, and once to confirm my suspicion that “The Unsleeping Eye” referred to the dread Pinkerton’s.
\nAll in all, a great start. I’m really surprised how downright excited I am to back in Pynchonville.
\nNext Tuesday<\/b>: Let’s stretch our page count just a touch so we can get to the end of Part One. We’ll pull over for nuts and clementines at the bottom of page 118, “toward a fate…few would willingly have chosen.”
\n(which is to say: use this thread to comment through page 118. Try to finish reading that part of the book and to comment on it here by end o’ day next Monday)<\/i>
\nPugnax!
\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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