Welcome Barth Readers!

Ok, seeing as how Barth requires far more than our tri-part discussion sessions in the classroom, perhaps we can go some distance together in the freedom of cyberspace. Feel free to post here your observations, questions, quotes, Barth jokes, etc.; anything that will benefit the rest of us reading along. As usual, the interesting things will most likely develop in the conversations in the comment strings... enough introduction, though, let's get to the beginning!