Comments on: Join the Tunnel Club

By: Medusa4303

Medusa4303 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:58:02 +0000

Thanks. Scott! I have just joined the Bolano group, and I am looking forward to reading interesting and enlightening comments for this new project. I hope many of the IS group will join; I miss reading the discussions.

By: ariel

ariel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:43:33 +0000

thank you scott!!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:07:50 +0000

If not here, maybe as a group read on the Bolano Googl Group. See the discussion of starting in January link here

By: ariel

ariel — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:13:49 +0000

hi! can we please revisit this? is there going to be a 2666 club in january?

By: nancy munford

nancy munford — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:02:18 +0000

yes please count me in.

By: JayCruz

JayCruz — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:54:38 +0000

The Gargantuan and Infinite Tunnel Club

I like this and I want in.

By: Paul F

Paul F — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:35:39 +0000

I’d vote for another lengthy modern classic over the winter (I just read 2666 this spring so not that one please)

By: Michael Tosi

Michael Tosi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:26:54 +0000

Not to get too meta, but as someone who is behind on the Infinite Summer project by about four weeks (always running late), and simultaneously reading Infinite Jest and 2666 (one at each of the locations I sleep at), I think the idea of letting things devolve in a “nature-takes-it’s-own-course” way until the Pale King is released, and we can all meet here again to start anew (as it were)is too perfect to try to pass up. I will (of course) be 4 weeks late again, but that’s my business.

Also, I think books/novels that deal in sideways (for lack of a better word) ways of learning stuff would be optimal, but not mandated. Like, one of my favorites ever is Moby Dick, and it has nothing to do with calling anyone Ishmael or even great white whales, but much more the minutiae of whaling as a profession/lifeblood…

Maybe it’s just me…

But as someone who has no idea about the end of IJ I would love to keep (and by I, I mean you) some sort of random “hey-it’s-all-about-the-journey-not-the-destination” meeting place for this to all happen.

I know nothing about bandwidths/internets, and I’m sure I’m just imposing on you, but as I’ve been making my way through this book, I have found this location/website invaluable, and I thank you for that…

…and I can say with the utmost certainty that 2666 would be a formidable Sierpinski gasket-style alternate track.

Imagine watching next summer’s Wimbledon, and reading 2666/IJ/Pale King as one all-encompassing goof-off, jumping back and forth, maybe confusing the text from one with the text from another…

Simultaneously squeezing a tennis ball in your hand, of course.

A boy can dream.

in re: the jouney/not-destination of it all, that is.

Anyway…

Again, even if not, and I’m just crazy (which is totally meta), thanks.

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By: ColetteJ

ColetteJ — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:30:24 +0000

This has been a fantastic experience! I’m in for the Tunnel Club! When do you expect to have a decision on the book? Looking forward is part of the fun!