Editing Pynchon?

[Ian Livingston]

Which parts of the Sistine Chapel ceiling might be edited to improve
the work, I wonder?

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 ppetto at ppetto.com wrote:
>> I believe that Pynchon values a good editor, and has used one (or more)
>> on all his books. John Krafft & Luc Herman have written two great pieces
>> exploring this in the case of V.
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>> Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon’s V. at the Harry Ransom
>> Center in Austin in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 49,
>> No. 1, Spring 2007, compares V.'s corrected typescript with the
>> published novel. I recommend everyone read this.
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>> From the Ground Up: The Evolution of the South-West Africa Chapter in
>> Pynchon’s V. in Contemporary Literature XLVII, 2 , takes one section
>> and goes into greater detail. Also a wonderful piece.
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> Ditto! Would someone like to have a copy of the former essay by the
> transatlantic maestros, just tell me and I'll send it as pdf. (Seems
> that I've - at least temporarily - lost the latter file.)
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> Heikki
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