SLSL Intro: What Pynchon or his editor should have done WAS Re: SLSL Racial Differences

[pynchonoid]

>I'd say Pynchon's editor was remiss in not sending
>the paragraph back to him
>with a thick red line through this sentence and a
>large question mark in the
>margin beside it. It's not at all clear "who" or
>"what" he's talking about.


Not a very fruitful observation, really. (Assuming the
Intro is "poorly written" doesn't get a reader very
far, either.)  The reader must deal with the material
Pynchon approved for publication.  Whatever an
editor's response might have been to the Intro, the
version before us is what Pynchon chose to present, no
matter how much fun it might be to speculate on what
he might have written instead. 



-Doug



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