ATD sale date, Middlemarch, measuring...

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This is why I love this list--what a wonderful site and insight.  Thank 
you, Tore.

My copy still hasn't landed on my porch (and won't now until maybe 
Friday).  In anticipation of this worst case scenario, I had stopped at 
the library, and MIddlemarch was the volume deemed best suited to fill 
the void.  (But I am a huge fan of Melville and Moby Dick) and when the 
"guys" are measuring, it isn't just the thickness of the tome, but the 
length and elegance of the sentences....

A.



Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

>
> Thanks for a very nice description of the book. The type, 
> incidentally, IS Baskerville - when I'm in doubt, I always visit this 
> useful site:
>
> http://www.linotype.com/fontidentifier.html
>
> Interestingly, AtD is the first of Pynchon's novels where the typeface 
> isn't matched to the period of the book: V. and Lot 49 were both set 
> in Electra, William A. Dwiggins' typeface from the mid-twentieth 
> century, and GR was set in Caledonia, another Dwiggins' typeface (from 
> 1939). Vineland was set in Sabon, a typeface from the 1960'es, and M&D 
> was set in Bodoni, a type which at least in name and inspiration harks 
> back to the 18th century. So in a sense, with Pynchon's first five 
> novels, the typeface more or less corresponded to the period described 
> in the novel.
> AtD departs from this tendency, since Baskerville was designed in 1750.
> BTW, I wonder what Penguin will do when the novel is eventually 
> released in paperback. The type is, as you point out, very small, and 
> if it got any smaller, as in a smaller paperback with the same page 
> layout, my eyes would certainly be taxed to the limit.
>
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