"Thomas Pynchon said, grandly"

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Mon May 14 03:31:26 CDT 2007


I just wrote:

>My personal (and completely unsubstantiated) theory is that the Everyman's 
>Library edition of GR (which was announced back in the mid-90s but never 
>appeared) was abandoned because the editors were adamant that the edition 
>should have an introduction (like all other Everyman's Library-editions), 
>and Pynchon was adamant that it shouldn't....

- but then I did a little digging and came up with this very interesting 
page, which brutally disproves my theory, but which also contains some - for 
me at least - new information:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/grintro.html

This is the first time I've seen the cover of that abandoned version, and 
I'm very surprised that it actually had a photo of Pynchon on the cover.

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