Editing Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

About AtD, I heard that the edits near the end were only of a copyediting and typos correction nature.



--- 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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