[Fordim Hedgethistle]

1) What is the level of organization for these 'chunky' discussions? Will we have already planned what level of time is to be put into each tier of chapter discussion. I know too much planning will water down the enjoyment, but how will the levels be kept track of? Begin and end? I realize that no discussion may ever entirely end, but how will we go about the process?

It's looking more and more like there will be a new thread added by a mod for each chapter on a more or less weekly basis -- the ambiguity here comes from the proposal to speed up the pace or slow it down depending on how the discussion is going. Those who wish to post to the new thread can go ahead, those who wish to continue with the older threads may do so, those who wish to do both -- more power to them!

So, yes, this means that this forum will be running for more than a year before we've got through the whole book, but I don't think anyone is proposing that you have to read the book that slowly -- I myself will read it chapter by chapter as we go, but others may wish simply to review from time to time.

2) What sort of things will be discussed? Just very general stuff, themes, language, and the like? Will any discussions be a bit more thematic than others? More specific, or focused, perhaps?

Again, it would appear as though we are moving toward a very open forum for discussion. I am certainly not going to pose formal questions each week (egads -- can you imagine the workload?) and none of the mods have yet undertaken to do so either. I rather suspect that it will work out that somebody will post something, and somebody else will respond, etc etc. As we get further into it, there will be ideas floating around already that we can bring to bear on the new chapter.

3) What members have we currently? As this is not 'exclusive' I suppose there really is no 'club' merely members who wish to try their hand. Does this mean that anyone can openly discuss something, make a new point, or is there an appointed amount of folks who will reign over each of the chapter levels?

Anyone and everyone at the Downs is automatically a member of the club. They can post once or every day for the duration of the discussion (yes, I am looking at you Saucepan).

Hope this clarifies where I think things currently stand.