Editing Pynchon?

[Mark Kohut]

I suggest there is no reasonable way to compare Vibe with Pierre, Bartleby or Hograve. None. Dare I add 'morally reasonable way'?

Sometimes the Tombs are just a prison.

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Editing Pynchon?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:01 AM
> 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.
>