COL 49 mention

[Paul Mackin]

Plus also piled into the new book--my copy anyway--is a self referential and
therefore postmodern portion of the text printed on a small sheet tucked
loosely under the front cover board calling attention to the publishing
eventuality of not quite having delivered to us the entire and true text but
only a slightly garbled version of it--to wit,  "erratum--We have discovered
that the text on pages 430 and 431 of THE CORRECTIONS was reversed in this
printing, ie., page 431 should be read before page 430. We apologize for
this error." Only the first of many CORRECTIONS indeed we can assume.

            P.


----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: COL 49 mention


> Reviewing The Corrections in the Sunday Times Book Review, David Gates
writes:
>
> "Sure, I guess it's a no-no to put stuff in your book that doesn't pay
off,
> but I can't scrape together much outrage when I'm basically having a good
> time.   Anyhow, you have to expect a degree of indeterminacy in an
ambitious
> novel these days; an intricately, perfectly paranoid book like Pynchon's
> 'Crying of Lot 49,' in which everything seems to have some sinister
relation
> to everything else, now seems as quaintly formalist as 'The Waste Land.'"
>