NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)

[Don Corathers]

jbor:

>Though, there is the dilemma of how the printer knew
>where to insert the sentence if he missed the fact that the instruction was
>an instruction about where to insert it.

If you worked with graphic designers you wouldn't have any trouble believing
this could happen.

D.C.

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: NPPF - Foreword - Summary / Commentary (3)


> on 15/7/03 11:18 AM, Don Corathers wrote:
>
> > The Vintage reads the same way.
> >
> > I don't think it would be that unusual to hear "galleys [that] I had
been
> > sent here" in conversational speech, but yes, it is an odd and awkward
> > construction for a writer as careful as Kinbote.
>
> Yes, I agree on both points, and it supports the notion that Kinbote was
in
> a bit of a rush to get the thing to press.
>
> > Re the sequence of events with the proof and corrections: James Kyllo (I
> > think) observed earlier today that it would be impossible for Kinbote to
> > have made a note on the proof in response to the publisher's request if
the
> > request came in the same communication from Frank as the acknowledgement
> > that the proof had been returned.
>
> Yes. I think the idea of a separate note from Kinbote, maybe a telegram,
> with the extra sentence and instruction, after Frank's acknowledgement and
> request, is logical. Though, there is the dilemma of how the printer knew
> where to insert the sentence if he missed the fact that the instruction
was
> an instruction about where to insert it.
>
> best
>
> > Which is certainly true. It is possible,
> > though, that there was more than one iteration of proof cycling between
New
> > York and Utana. (On the magazine I work for, it usually takes us about
five
> > sets of proof to get an article from edited manuscript to finished
layout.)
> > Or that the poem, commentary, and foreword were galleyed separately. Or,
> > perhaps most probable, that Kinbote didn't write the instruction on the
> > proof itself but sent it in a separate note, which would explain why he
had
> > to write out the instruction for its placement instead of indicating the
> > position by drawing a line, as one would do when marking up a galley.
> >
>
>