AtD - well, whadda ya know ...

[rich]

yeah, definitely not Vineland but Lot 49 fits--so in 1964-65 Pynchon may
have had in mind/progress on 49, GR, M&D, and AD as the four books. maybe 49
isn't one of 'em--one could argue that, too

rich


On 8/7/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, it's huge even by Pynchon standards. Watch out for a 2000 page
> German
> translation! And if it is  (I think it is) one of the four 'millennium'
> books he had in his mind way back in the 1960s, he might as well have been
> working on it intermittently since the publication of GR. I don't want to
> consider 'Vineland' as one of these, so maybe there will be more surprises
> in the future. Thomas Mann is a good precedent here, as he finished his
> mammoth 'Joseph and his Brothers' at a very respectable age.
>
> >wow!
> >not surprising I suppose seeing as M&D was being edited fairly close to
> >publication date.
> >
> >one leads me to suspect that Pynchon had alot of M&D written beforehand
> and
> >that he may have been working on these two books together. who knows, who
> >cares
> >
> >dang, 1040 pgs
> >
> >rich
> >
> >
>
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