Editing Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

"A book is built up as a balanced structure  and one cannot simply remove large chunks here and there unless one is ready to recast the whole thing....I really cannot allow my work to be mucked about beyond a certain point and I doubt whether it even pays in the long run."--Orwell

quoted by Thomas Pynchon in his Foreword to the Centennial edition of 1984
concerning Orwell's refusal, at a risk of 40,000 pounds, to cut sections of
the Goldstein book within 1984 and that ..unusual... appendix, The Principles of Newspeak.

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Editing Pynchon?
> To: against.the.dave at gmail.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:21 AM
> 
> >
> >> 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
> > U of Texas ...
> 
> John Krafft wrote a paper on that a while back. Fascinating
> stuff.
> Then of course there was talk of Pynchon having made very
> significant last-minute edits to ATD, so maybe some day
> we'll find out how those affected the book.
> 
> 
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