An obvious nod

[Tore Rye Andersen]

>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>To: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: An obvious nod
>Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:54:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I probably wasn't paying as much attention as I should
>have been, but did somebody say something about the
>British edition of Lempriere's Dictionary being
>significantly different from the US edition?  Longer?
>

The American publishers cut about 60 pages of the British edition. David 
Streitfeld reported in The Washington Post that Norfolk's American editor 
didn't like the novel's more supernatural elements - or at least felt that 
American readers wouldn't appreciate them - so those parts of the novel were 
simply cut away. The cuts were quite inexpertly done and have resulted in 
numerous inconsistencies - characters in the American edition react in 
strange ways which are frankly inexplicable unless you have the British 
edition, etc. etc.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Lawrence Norfolk on a couple of occasions. 
In interviews from around the time the American edition was published 
Norfolk diplomatically said that he liked the "faster pace" of the American 
edition, but over a few beers had said to me that he "fucking hated" them 
and that he considered having the American version pulled entirely from the 
market.
And one can certainly sympathize: the British edition is vastly superior to 
the bowdlerized American version - still, the Danish publishers of the novel 
stupidly chose to have the American version translated.

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