C of L49 continuity error?

[David Payne]

I dunno if anyone noted the typo in the 2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, p. 127: 
 
"He changed slides. 'You get the general idea. notice how often the figure of Death hovers in the background [...]'"
 
I don't have a different hard copy on hand, but all three electronic sources I checked had a comma between "idea" and "notice."
 
I suspect that the HPMC editor was attempting to correct the comma splice but goofed on the capitalization (although comma splices generally seem to be tolerated when writers quote speakers).
 
On Jul 10, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> a: 132, b: ? - Oedipa checked out of the hotel and drove down the
>> peninsula
>> This may be a continuity goof by Pynchon [snip ...]
>

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 (15:31:51 -0700), Robin responded:
 
> I also thought about the same thing when reading the passage:
>
> At length he climbed on a Berkeley bus. Oedipa followed.
> Halfway up Telegraph the carrier got off and led her down the
> street to a pseudo-Mexican apartment house. Not once had he
> looked behind him. John Nefastis lived here. She was back
> where she'd started, and could not believe 24 hours had
> passed. Should it have been more or less?
>
> Back in the hotel . . .
>
> Then there's the dance without sound in the hotel's ballroom and then
> a fade out [essentially] followed by:
>
> Next day, after twelve hours of sleep and no dreams to speak
> of, Oedipa checked out of the hotel and drove down the
> peninsula to Kinneret. . . .
>
> There is a discontinuity here. Is it an indication of slipshod work?
> Or is it an indication that Oedipa's perception of "reality" has
> become unreliable? Again, if what happened at night in San Francisco
> is more an allegory of an acid trip than a variation on a detective
> novel—consider all that is so very unlikely & possibly projected by
> Oedipa in the "Nighttown" sequence—this unmarked ellipsis is like one
> of the posts holding up Oedipa's constructed reality. That one post
> has has given way, and it's a short matter of time before the building
> falls over.
>
> At the same time, there's a lot that might have happened between
> Oedipa getting out of the hotel's bed and getting back into her Impala.
>
> But most likely, Pynchon wrote the book in a hurry and overlooked this
> detail.
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