Inherent Vice: Pink Fade

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*That's* not a nice thing to say (under-gluing the spine). And, as we all 
know but won't remember, if you cannot say anything nice, say something 
scurrilous.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 5:49 PM
Subject: Inherent Vice: Pink Fade


> Got my copy of Inherent Vice at Borders today. Place looked like a
> rummage sale. There was no discount. The clerk told me :"I guess it's
> not an important book."
>
> The inside flaps for the cover are sprayed pink, the kind of pink fade
> you find on remaindered books. Not all of them, mind you. Not all
> publishers use that signifier on a book headed for the $5 bin, but
> enough. If you've ever worked or obsessively shopped at one of the big
> box book stores, you'll know what I talking about.
>
> I've always seriously wondered if Pynchon had it written into his
> contract that the first edition QP of Gravity's Rainbow be
> deliberately under-glued along the spine, thus guaranteeing that all
> copies of that edition would fall apart about two thirds the way in.
>


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