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

[Ya Sam]

Reminds me of the male and female versions of Milorad Pavic's 'The 
Dictionary of the Khazars'.


>From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>CC: pynchonoid at yahoo.com
>Subject: RE: ATD: first edition binding variants WAS Re: Red-spined AtD? 
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:29:27 +0100
>
>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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