Editing Pynchon?

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Carvill John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> "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."
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> 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.

Exactly, though I'd love to see that 1st draft or whatever of V. @ the
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