Happiness! Happiness! Happiness!
Neil Conaty
nconaty at juno.com
Mon Dec 7 20:12:58 CST 1998
P-listers! I suggest we get together and buy this copy. Who better than
us to have access to this text? We will disseminate the changes and then
have UPMDUPMD (utterly pointless mass discussion....?). Those that pony
up $100 or more can belong to the select few who share ownership of The
Book. We will pass it between ourselves and have secret meetings at which
we ponder the workings of the great mind. We will finally have a glimpse
behind the curtain.
Speaking of Books passed around... Did the GRGR get to The Book? Anyone
ever look at the connection between Pavlov's text and the Book passed
around (in 14 parts?) in Ishmael Reed's (mentioned in GR) Mumbo Jumbo?
-Neil
On Fri, Jane writes:
>275. -[ PYNCHON, Thomas. Mason and Dixon. NY: Henry Holt (1997).] the
uncorrected proof copy, with significant
>textual variations from the above advance reading
>copy as well as from the printed book. We have been told that
>virtually the entire edition of these proofs was
>destroyed, and the quantity extant was, at one point, rumored to total
>nine copies. Fine in wrappers. The most
>significant printed variant of any Pynchon work ever to appear the
>only one to contain a significantly earlier
>version of the text than that which was finally published in book
>form. While the textual variations in the advance
>reading copy listed above are minor, and could easily have been the
>work of a copy editor, those evident in this
>proof would have to have involved Pynchon's assent and his rewriting.
>$3500
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