Writing Theory

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

I believe that GR must have existed, in embryo at least, before V was
put into its final form.  How else to explain all the splendid GR
V-material which P avoided using up in "V"?  Evidence of the old
glazzies, droogie...  

I don't personally find Doug's idea of the single giant novel gradually
coming to being persuasive.  I can easily imagine all of them existing
in outline simultaneously, and gradually being fleshed out and reworked
over the decades, and can even imagine that Vineland, despite its
V-title, might have been a recreational excursion of sorts.

Might we await the "Japanese Insurance Adjustor" as a siysyphian coda?
A pacific-theater(re) pendant to the european-theater GR, forming a
dyptic composition?

muttering into my pint again,
Mark

--- Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> doug wrote:
> >
> >The four novels he was working on in the 60s were more likely V.,
> GR,
> >COL49, and M&D (not Vineland).
> --------------------
> I would not include V..  By the mid-60s, V. was published--the
> fourth, if 
> the Pynchon Files is correct, is speculated to be that japanese
> monster 
> movie epic, "The Japanese Insurance Adjustor." That seems to be the
> only 
> standing rumor as to  unpublished work he could be still hoping or
> working 
> on to publish.  I doubt we'll ever see the Meatball Mulligan series
> of 
> stories, of which Entropy is a part.
> 
> Rich
> 
> >
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