The Unified Field Theory of Late Pynchon, first draft

[kelber at mindspring.com]

You might be crediting THEM with more intelligence than THEY possess.  Seen through the shallow-and-greedy lens, their suppositions make sense:  Famous Author + Big Book = Pile's o'Money.

LK

-----Original Message-----
>From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 22, 2009 2:22 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: The Unified Field Theory of Late Pynchon, first draft
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>I wasn't questioning your info, just hungry for details.How anybody expected ATD to 'earn big' is beyond me. In today's society? With no fucking marketing? Like, say what?
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>> I do trust the word that he received "a lot" and that it did not 'earn out".....earn out is publishing lingo for make enough in royalties to equal the advance.....
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>I knew what 'earn out' means :-)I just don't get the dynamic - they (They) paid TRP 'a lot' for this big book he'd been working on for a long time. Then they fucked up the marketing of it. Yeah, they were hampered to an extent by ol' Tom's publicity phobia. BUt there musta been something(s) they coulda shoulda done.ATD will be reappraised (upwards) in years to come, and the big-ticket critics who slated it will be reassessed (downwards).Ah well. Money. Money changes everything:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQJVSOh7cEc
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