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\nHappy Week 5! I’m about 8 pages behind, but trucking along. Did I fall asleep today in a public place with the book on my lap? And did they almost take an embarrassing picture of me, but then I woke up just in time? Counsel has advised me to neither confirm nor deny.
\nThis one has been feeling to me a little more like a “Cannonball Run” or a “Gumball Rally” than a “Deathmarch” for some reason. Not that it’s easy or even zany. Just something about the rhythm — the book is racing along. And then I get stopped by the cops and Sammy Davis Junior has to dress up like a monk. Something like that. It’s not a bad thing though — “The Brothers Karamazov Gumball Rally” has a pleasant ring to it.
\nI’ve been especially enjoying the conversations characters keep having with themselves while other people watch, letting their thoughts tumble out like grapefruits from a busted shopping bag: “I don’t want an ice cream cone. Oh, you can see I want an ice cream cone, can’t you? It’s written on my face! Yes! I do want an ice cream cone! But I won’t have one. Unless you give me one. Will you give me an ice cream cone? I’m such a lowly creature! And yet, an ice cream would be fantastic right about now!” he said.
\nI’m guessing this may in part be because people interrupted each other a lot less back in 19th century Russia. Also, they were mostly insane.
\nThis coming week let’s go for a slightly more slenderized serving, to give those marchers-just-a-wee-bit-behind a chance to catch up, so we can march toward page 300 with a mighty trailwind at our backs.
\nNext Wednesday:<\/b> I’ll see ya at the optimistic juncture at the end of Book V, where “never had his heart bathed in sweeter hopes…”
\n(which is to say: please use this Week 4 thread for comments on pages 0-282; aim to finish reading that section and shout out here by end o’ day Tuesday)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"