Handling ATD

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

 I bought two copies, one to have a nice looking copy,
 gave it to my sister at Thanksgiving who was really
 turned on by AtD's echos of "Bleak House" (her
 literary idee fixe). My reading copy had coffee 
sneezed into one of the pages---I'll be on the
 lookout for kabballistic implications during my 
second pass (I'm at pg. 288, all sorts of stuff 
recirculates throughout the book)---and is marked up
with about 200  little multicolored tags, newly found

 orange 

appeared yesterday, so there's now a seperate
color demarcation for music. Yellow is for humor, 
purple for spritural or otherwise magical affairs, and so on. . . .

We use property stickers at work, the sticker today, 
when peeled off the cover, took a bit of the covers ultra thin
 layer of whateverthehell, leaving a rectangular tear, one corner
centered over the letters "C" & "H" in the author's name.
Where what was once textured like paper is found to
 be very slick at the next layer.


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> My copy was also in good shape in spite of Amazon,   UPS and the 
> local foggy conditions here near Bakersfield.   That said,   I have 
> an LL Bean tote bag (blue and green stripes) which is very 
> serviceable and I tote the thing everywhere.   There are a few ink 
> marks and pencil marks and butter marks in it (from the popcorn last 
> night) - I don't think I've spilled coffee in it yet but ...  and 
> I'll doubt if I'll break the spine because it's so thick it just 
> rests there.   I'll be doing far more note-taking in it on my second 
> read when I know what I'm kind  looking for.   (There are several 
> convenient blank pages in the back of this book!)
> 
> I have no idea if  I'll get another one  or not - probably prior to a 
> third reading of this one - should that day ever come to pass.   I've 
> read my original copy of (1998)  Underworld 3 or 4 times and it's in 
> truly pathetic condition (to make you weep) ,  but I had to buy 
> another Pale Fire.
> 
> Bekah
> 
> 
> At 8:19 PM -0500 11/25/06, Joe Knepper wrote:
> >My copy from Amazon is in good shape.  A beautiful book, eh?  The pages are
> >smooth as silk.  The book has heft and character.
> >
> >People have been more obsessed by a whole lot less, don't you think?
> >
> >I love getting new books.
> >
> >j
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> >Of Ande
> >Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 3:30 PM
> >To: Henry Musikar; Pynchon-L
> >Subject: Re: Handling ATD
> >
> >My copy arrived from Amazon, a gift--but I am very disappointed with
> >it--the pages were wavy (maybe moisture damage from the insignificant
> >packaging and high humidity and the cover had some surface
> >irregularities--again maybe due to packaging--so I went down to the
> >local independent book store and paid the full price for a better
> >"shelf" copy--I'm glad, because I will be able to loan out the
> >first....however I did make a book cover out of brown paper bag for the
> >first copy--think I will decorate it with pictures from the wiki, etc
> >
> >
> >A.
> >
> >Henry Musikar wrote:
> >
> >>My ATD is not leaving the house or entering any rooms accustomed to high
> >humidity. I have removed the dust jacket so that it won't become dinged or
> >dingy, I make sure that my hands are clean before handling the book, and I
> >will soon make a book cover, much as we made for our text books when I was a
> >boy, but... of what material? Is the paper from brown paper bags/sacks okay
> >for archival/valued/cherished/valuable editions?
> >>
> >>Please tell me that I am not alone in my respectful (neurotic?) handling of
> >the new "The Book."
> >>
> >>Henry
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