Editing Pynchon?

[Nushra MohamedKhan]

Of course, we are reminded of Melville's Pierre and how H. Parker
excised the parts that allude to the failure of Moby-Dick and
Melville's battle with the publishing industry and the reading public.
Like Pynchon, he made extensive use of both popular culture and poular
texts, subjected to parody and irony, and the vast canonical tradition
some of it only recently added such as Hawthorne's HSG. It is not a
shock that Pynchon would, as Melville did, turn to Holgrave for his
AGTD photo radical figure.

Pierre, like Bartleby, ends up in the Tombs. He can not sell his
books. Vibe puts his son in the Tombs for a spat. But then he comes to
understand that he needn't employ his son; he can hire and train a
Gatsby.