Mortality & Mercy in Vienna...

[Dave Monroe]

Both The Great Quail ...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_mortality.html

And Michel Ryckx ...

http://www.vheissu.be/bio/eng/eng_vienna.htm

Have M&MIV online.  However ...

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html

Has the advantage of using the least amount of paper
when printed, I believe.  I haven't done the hard
target search for discrepancies, but I'm assuming
they're all nigh unto precisely the same text.  Of
course, no matter what, we won't have page numbers, so
everybody'll have to be particularly careful to give
contextual clues as to where they're reading, but ...
well, that's why I've tended to use short,
recognizable citations as subject headings, with
postings generally on specific ideas, passages,
sentences, phrases, words, whatever, rather than bulk
annotations.  Unless of course we ALL can get either
at least a copy of the original Epoch text (now that I
think of it, am surprised original appearances HAVEN'T
been scanned in somewhere) or one of those little
bootleg eds ...

So my recommendation is, again, short citations as
subject headings, sticking, beyond summaries as
needed/desired, as much as possible to specific points
in the story, with particular care not to diverge all
too greatly from John's initial headings unless
something fairly outside them is being raised (say, a
question he's asked or at any rate left unanswered is
being covered), so's we don't get lost too easily or
quickly.  Use whatever online text works for you
(unless, of course, you DO have a bootleg/original
copy and the need/desire to gloat, damn you) ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...I'll be starting the posts on M&MiV this weekend
> and was looking for some P-list opinion on posting
> protocol:
> 
> I'm assuming most here aren't in possession of an
> original published copy of the story, instead
> relying on the good ole Internet (it's on plenty of
> sites out there). This being the case, does anyone
> have any...
> 
> a) particular versions (ie sites) they think will be
> easiest to use as the 'standard'?
> b) any ideas on how to annotate the thing, when page
> numbers are absent?

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