Editing GR

[Daniel Bump]

Commenting on the following from Orlowsky at aol.com:

> "Faith and Kirkpatrick Sale are one of those devastatingly bright young New
> York couples. Lovely house, and a place in the country. Undoubtedly perfect
> children. A story about them in People magazine. He published a highly
> praised book about the rise of the Southern Rim, she was the copy editor for
> Gravity's Rainbow. . . . Faith Sale had told me that she and Pynchon had
> argued, she had mentioned a fight about Pynchon's use of the word "moire" as
> a verb, a quirky thing he does an unusual number of times in Gravity's
> Rainbow."
> --Robert Cooke Goolrick, Pieces of Pynchon, New Times, October 13, 1978.

Monte Davis (modavis at bellatlantic.net) wrote:

> when you verb a French noun and your editor frowns, that's a moire

Is it my imagination or is that an unusually good pun?