Chapters Read<\/b>: 11. Captain Black, 12. Bologna, 13. Major ______ De Coverely<\/p>\nChapters Read<\/b>: 11. Captain Black, 12. Bologna, 13. Major ______ De Coverely<\/p>\n
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Status Report<\/b>: Folks are dropping out of NaNoReMo left<\/a> and right<\/a>. I guess since I, the founder of NaNoReMo, dropped out of it myself last year, everyone is allowed one bail. But next year when we read Ulysses<\/em>: no quitters.<\/p>\n Well too bad for you guys, because things just got great. Captain Black<\/em> was my favorite chapter so far. Its tale of “Loyalty Oaths Gone Wild” reads like “United States, 2002: A Year In Review.” Actually who am I kidding, ascribing this to 2002? We’re still a nation that freaks out if a presidential candidate opts not to wear a American flag lapel pin<\/a>. What is such flair, if not a loyalty oath in pewter?<\/p>\n Plus, as John F. pointed out in in the comments of the last post<\/a>, the chapter Bologna<\/em> shows the first unmistakable signs of an emerging plot.<\/p>\n By the way, I honestly think it’s not too late to join NaNoReMo 2007. If anything, I think Catch-22<\/em> is probably best read in two weeks or less. My greatest difficulty, this year, is pacing myself out, so I don’t just dash the rest of the book off over a weekend. (Too keep myself on schedule, I’ve alternated my reading between this and latest issue of Murdaland<\/a>.) The circular writing is a bit taxing, spread out over a full month. But I suspect, were you to just bolt the whole novel as quickly as possible, it would probably go down a lot smoother.<\/p>\n If you are still in, and have a blog, mention it in the comments: I’ll migrate the links up to this post. Plus, I’d be curious to see a headcount.<\/p>\n Favorite Passage<\/b>: I would reprint “Captain Black” here in full, were it not for copyright law.<\/p>\n Still in NaNoReMo<\/b>:<\/p>\n Chapters Read: 11. Captain Black, 12. Bologna, 13. Major ______ De Coverely Page reached:: 124 of 448 (27.68%). Status Report: Folks are dropping out of NaNoReMo left and right. I guess since I, the founder of NaNoReMo, dropped out of it myself last year, everyone is allowed one bail. But next year when we read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanoremo-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n