Editing Pynchon?

[Carvill John]

>From one of the best articles I've read on Pynchon, this (quite obvioius) point:

"On the other hand, not much large-scale editing was actually done on the book. I'm told there were some weak initial noises made to Pynchon about the desirability of cutting, but he refused to consider it. Speaking as a book editor myself, I would not know where to begin or where my cuts might be severing important subterranean connections of plot and symbol, and apparently neither did anyone at Viking. So the untitled novel that Pynchon delivered—which at some point acquired the working title Mindless Pleasures—is at least 99 percent the book that readers of Gravity's Rainbow encountered."

http://www.bookforum.com/archive/sum_05/pynchon.html
We still don't 'understand' the structure of ATD, so cutting it would be an absurdity.

When foax talk about cutting pages from Pynchon, it always reminds me of Bill HIcks's routine about arguing with fundamentalist Christians:
They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, huh?
"I think what God meant to say was..."
Wow! I have *never* been that confident.
:-)







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