_Die Schere_ Is the Most Suitable

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

Gary Kern wrote:

> Practically speaking, I think the thing would really work if from time
> to time Rebing and Oswald and/or other volunteers put out a page on the
> EJ list containing German text and English translation--two or three
> paragraphs--and called for responses.  Given group logistics, this seems
> to me the procedure that will keep readers up to date and ensure the
> best responses.  Each page or posting would have a number.

Yes, the practical organization is important.
But do we really need translation into English ?

> A book of maxims might work better than Die Schere, in that the maxims
> are more or less self-contained.  Such, for example, is Maxima-Minima.
> But whatever the core group decides to post would settle the matter.

_Die Schere_ is indeed according to EJ the 
most important book of his later production.
It is only 186 pages and contains 284 short
essays. It is in my opinion well suited
for reading.
 
> I really think that a group reading by e-mail of a large and difficult
> novel would soon fizzle out.  I for one am too busy with my own projects
> to commit myself to such a project.  But e-mails I read and answer,
> hence that procedure would work with me.

Those who are not students on this (which
includes me) would appreciate a not
too large a a project.

Greetings

Bertil Haggman