GR film sprocket holes and vistaVision

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/25/07, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_05/pynchon.html

And ...

I have—I'll never tell how—photocopies of some twenty editorial
letters between Cork and Pynchon about the novel that would eventually
come to be called V. But not before some simply awful alternative
titles were at least briefly considered: The Yo-Yo World of Benny
Profane, The Quest of Herbert Stencil, World on a String (all Cork's
ideas), and Blood's a Rover, Down Paradise Street, And His Ass Falls
Off, Footsteps of the Gone, Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails, The
Republican Party Is a Machine (Pynchon's). How they settled on the
perfectly obvious title of V., the letters do not say....