That missing parenthesis (GR 411)

[Mark Wright AIA]

Salt. 
Salty tears, salty sweat, salt lick. Salted wounds. Salt of the earth.
Pillar of salt. 
Sex, hard work, and retribution.
A plister pointed out several years ago that the mournful, angry and
always-relevant "Salt of the Earth" (from the Rolling Stones' record
Beggar's Banquet) provides a perfect tune and a sing-along template for
Pynchon's GR lyric "Say a Prayer for the Common Informer".

SALT OF THE EARTH 
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Let's drink to the hard working people 
Let's drink to the lowly of birth 
Raise your glass to the good and the evil 
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier 
Spare a thought for his back breaking work 
Say a prayer for his wife and his children 
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth

(....)etcetera etcetera

Mark

--- albert pulido <albertpulido at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone, and have any of you ever emailed Pynchon?
> Anyway, still reading GR and have another question about something I
> also 
> think I've seen in the text before. So when Slothrop leaves his room
> with 
> Margherita to deliver the hashish the narr. describes night Berlin
> with, 
> "The salt ache of accordian music cries on in back of them." (434)
> Now, I know the emotions of sweet, sour, and bitter-- but salt? I'd
> be an 
> interesting emotion to add to a palate, but what is it?
> 
> Albert
> 
> >From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
> >To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Re: That missing parenthesis (GR 411)
> >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:25:23 +1000
> >
> >Yes, after the ellipsis at line 14, where the narrator's
> self-conscious
> >aside fades out. It's definitely an error, though there's no basis
> for
> >ascribing it to a printer or publisher. In fact, that assertion is
> quite
> >illogical seeing as how the omission has appeared in more than one
> edition
> >of the text.
> >
> >It's more likely that it's a mistake or oversight in the original ms
> which
> >neither author nor editor picked up. As such it's another
> opportunity for
> >some eager beaver to score brownie points with Pynchon, his agent or
> his
> >publisher. A simple email or fax pointing out the error should
> suffice.
> >
> >best
> >
> >
> > > Yep. Right after the ellipsis works. It's almost a pity, isn't
> it.
> >
> > >> The missing patrenthesis on page 411 clearly belongs right
> before the
> > >> elipses six lines down.  I see that I pencilled it in on my
> copy.
> > >> This is
> > >> an obvious printer's error.
> > >>
> > >
> >
> 
> 


	
		
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