Language & Grammar discussion

This one does -- at the rate of 1 1/2 pages per meeting:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/...

Got to add that to my list now. I wonder if I will be able to afford the extra razors or just let it grow...

Come on guys, I'll do it. Pretty positive I won't make eighteen years though, but we can start. Hahahahaha!!!

I wonder how that would work online. I started a thread on it over at CR, too. Mixed responses.

Most people use an apostrophe in the title (Finnegans Wake). One of those things....

CR is what?

It is another group we belong to here on Goodreads, it is called Constant Readers.

NE , we did a mini version for Moby Dick. That worked out well, but don't know about this one, and would it be worth it.

Only with enough people. I'd say 20 min. And I mean participating people. Like you said, we'd probably get through 30 pages in a few years. Ha!

I might live to 96.

what kind of rules would it have?

One and a half pages every ______________. There's the rub. How often, I mean. Plus you could never dig up 20 people here on the L&G site. I don't think you'd get it on CR, either. The book intimidates.

That said, this approach would work with any cryptic-as-hell book, of which more than a few exist.

Perhaps something simpler like "The Rune Poem" one stanza (3 lines) each Sunday. It is so beautifully cryptic yet many see it as nursery lessons or admonishments. Compiled over a few hundred years guessing 500 to 1000 AD, could be covered in about a year.

Never heard of it. But bringing up poetry creates all manner of candidates. How many giant, impossibly cryptic poems are there? Too many to list, I'd wager!

Yes, but it's been said, "less is more" (sometimes). It is hidden meaning I call cryptic. Some poets' fear of being ostracized.

Rune Poem
ISBN 0-81181136-0 (bc)
Didactic Poetry, English (old)

Translation by Jim Paul