by Stanley Anderson » January 17th, 2007, 4:40 pm
As I look over my archived posts from that earlier study, I realize that it is wouldn't be quite so easy to snip bits out -- there is a lot of "side discussion" going on that is integrated into the comments so that it would probably be easier for me to just review the posts and rewrite the main thoughts and possibly adding new ones -- basically just starting a study fresh.
One thing that I would keep from that study, if no one objects, is the rather slow progress. In the original, I only covered a couple or a few pages at a time, usually allowing a few days to a week between sections to allow for discussion of the current section. I didn't want to do a whole chapter at a time (as has been typical of other studies here) since, at least for me, there was simply too much to talk about and I tend to blank out in such cases. (that is how I would conduct a study of That Hideous Strength too -- one sub-section of a chapter at a time at most since practically every paragraph is packed with things to think about and potentially discuss)
So that might be a good thing for people afraid that it will bee too much to keep up with, and a bad thing for people who "want to get on with it" and wait impatiently for the next section to start (when Jo was doing something similar with LotR, she was already up to book two and a half or more while I was still only a third of the way through the prologue:-)
I'm thinking maybe a couple weeks to gather my thoughts together and get started? How does that sound? (I'd be glad to delay more if you need more time to get the book)
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.