ATD: first edition binding variants WAS Re: Red-spined AtD?

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Hmm, I suppose the two different bindings correspond quite nicely to the 
theme of double refraction, and the dustjacket itself seems to indicate that 
there are different versions of 'Against the Day', but if it was intended 
all along, it still seems like a cheap publishing trick to me, one I would 
expect from a publisher of Superman comics, but not from Pynchon's 
publisher. A poor schmuck like me simply can't live without both versions of 
the binding, and Penguin Press must count on that.
OK, here's a paranoid thought for the day: What if the doubling/refraction 
hinted at by the dustjacket and the two bindings also extend to the text 
itself?! What if there is not one, but two texts, differing ever so 
slightly, with certain important phrases being replaced by others?! Not 
"They fly toward grace", for instance, but "They fly toward hell" o-or: 
"They fly toward Sweden"!!?? Yaaaaghh!
Doug, your task for today is to compare the two versions of AtD and make a 
list of all the subtle, but important, differences! Report back in three 
hours.


>I have a red one that came from Amazon.com on the day
>of publication, and a green one that I got at Moe's
>Books on Telegraph Ave. at 12 am that day [...]

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