GRGR(0): published editions, covers

[Craig Clark]

Brian D. McCary nostalgises:

> In honor of the GRGR, I am retiring my now coverless Bantam copy.  When I
> purchased it in 1981 in a bookstore in Grand Central on my way to
> freshman orientation at Ga. Tech, it had a gold cover with a rocket atop
> a rainbow plum on the right side.  That fell off about the third time I
> read it.  The pages have yellowed and gone brittle, the type is tiny, and
> there's no room for notes in the margin, but it did have the advantage that
> I could stick it in my hip pocket in case of emergency.

Brian, I hope your copy will enjoy a peaceful retirement on an 
honoured shelf of your library. I recently retired my mid-1980s 
Picador paperback of _V._, the one with a cover that looks like a 
Whole Sick Crew party in progress. A special cover: the ballet dancer 
looks like the ballet dancer I was pursuing at the time, and the chap 
near her with the sheepskin jacket and the curly hair - well, there 
are some old and embarrassing photos from that phase of my life...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"