Ampersand

[Ghetta Life]

Does anyone remember a disappearing ink watermark on the jacket?  Or am I 
hallucinating (again)?

Ghetta

>From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>
>Yep. Allegedly Pynchon was very involved in the choice of the ampersand - 
>and interestingly the ampersand was changed from a fat one to a slimmer one 
>before publication. Amazon.com still has an image of the original 
>dustjacket proposal:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805037586/sr=8-2/qid=1155123814/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-1671899-5596848?ie=UTF8
>
>
>Much yellower than the published version (is it only me, or does the 
>ampersand here almost resemble Venus traversing a blazing yellow sun?), and 
>with a fatter ampersand.

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