AtD (spoilers) Tautologies

Ya Sam takoitov at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 28 17:44:56 CST 2006


There are some. Won't be able to pinpoint them right now. One had to do with 
ridgeline-something (was ridegeline-)... Hope there won't be too many of 
them. In one Penguin edition of Lawrence's Rainbow there were about 50, a 
real curiosity.


>From: "Jordan Fink" <jordan at riseup.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: AtD (spoilers) Tautologies
>Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:27:34 -0800 (PST)
>
>What Typos are you seeing? I havn't noticed any.
>
>-jordan
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>From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov@[omitted]>
>To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
>Subject: Re:AtD (spoilers) Tautologies
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:18:52 +0200
>
>Are the typos also the result of iceland spar?
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> >From: "Jordan Fink" <jordan@[omitted]>
> >To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
> >Subject: Re:AtD (spoilers) Tautologies
> >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:49:26 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >The words are doubling up because we are seeing them through ice land 
>spar.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Ya Sam <takoitov@[omitted]>
> > >Sent: Nov 28, 2006 2:38 PM
> > >To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
> > >Subject: AtD (spoilers) Tautologies
> > >
> > >I am a bit irritated by the tautological constructions in AtD, the 
>first
> > >being in the blurb itself "strange occurrences occur''. Just two 
>examples
> > >(but there are more)
> > >
> > >p. 198 'He sought Sloat's eyes with his one undamaged one'
> > >
> > >or p. At the Casino, back in the back rooms...
> > >
> > >I find it a tad jarring.

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