Editing Pynchon?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 5, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Ray Easton wrote:

> When I finished GR, I certainly did not think I understood all its  
> structural elements; on the contrary, I was (and to a very large  
> degree still am) baffled and mystified by what makes it a coherent  
> whole.  But I experienced it as just such an organized whole, even  
> though I did not understand how or why it was such.  I had a similar  
> experience with M&D.  But I had no such experience with ATD.

I assume that I'll never really "get" a Pynchon novel on my first  
reading, and the way the novels are constructed, it's possible to find  
one story line balanced out by another. I've had three passes at AtD  
and find the core of the book coheres just as much as GR. At the same  
time, Against the Day passes through a lot of time zones and a lot of  
different narratorial voices. It's easy to get lost among the  
labyrinths, particularly once one gets to the point of screaming "Get  
on with it!" I'd say the labyrinths of Inherent Vice are worth  
pursuing, I know I'm no closer to the bottom of IV then I am to  
"Farewell My Lovely", though I'm sure they both lead to the same place.

"But I'm looking for the same old place."

"Oh, you must mean the old "Same" place."

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