Pale Fire Peoples!
Welcome to Week 4! A nice long flight yesterday and some quality Father’s Day reading time has me nearly caught up. It seems like once I hit the King’s escape, things really started to move.
I was … Read on Macduff...
Archived DMs
The Pale Fire Deathmarch, Week 3
Pale Fire Peoples!
Welcome to Week 3. It’s very special week for me, because this is the first week when I’m officially a little bit behind, which means we’re really rollin’ now. I’ve been savouring it a bit too much … Read on Macduff...
The Palefire Deathmarch, Week 2
Pale Fire Peoples!
Looks like we’re off to an excellent start. Lotsa folks on the march, with fully 20 posts so far on last week’s thread, including an excellent bit o’ background on the Zemlya of it all, filed just … Read on Macduff...
The Palefire Deathmarch, Week 1
Welcome Pale Fire Peoples! Today is the first day of the rest of your Deathmarch. By my (very rough) count, we have around 20-30 folks on board — this should be fun.
For them what’re new to Deathmarching, here’s how … Read on Macduff...
The “Pale Fire Deathmarch” Pause That Refreshes
One week from today, the PFDM kicks off. Job one for this week: make sure you have yourself a copy of so-called “Pale Fire.” Job two: don’t read Pale Fire! Oh, you can read the cover copy. And you can … Read on Macduff...
“The Pale Fire Deathmarch” Exhortation!
A few weeks back, we wrapped “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch,” in which some 13 or 14 of us went screaming across Pynchon’s notoriously challenging uber-book.
Mark yer calendars. Two weeks from today — on May 31st — tanned, rested, and … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 17
In which our journey ends….
Congratulations and my thanks to everyone who took to the trail, you 35 or so who started this journey and enabled us achieve launch velocity, and you 13 or 14 who will make it through … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 16
Well this is it — the last stop before the final push! Just 7 days till we receive Ultimate Wisdom! Woo!
I enjoyed the last week’s reading, packed with taffy bits, although I’ll confess to getting pretty lost during the … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 15
At So-Called Bill’s excellent suggestion, last week turned into one final rest, reflect, and reread week before the grand finale. Now here we are, tanned and ready, primed for the big wrap and just — jinkies! — two more weeks … Read on Macduff...
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 14
So here we are at Week 14, and now it’s all right there, all right there within reach. Me myself, I’m about 8 pages off target, which is the closest I’ve been in a long while. The most recent stretch … Read on Macduff...