Pynchon's back catalogue

[Rob Jackson]

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:40:02 +0200
> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Pynchon's back catalogue
>
> Rob Jackson:
>
>
>> I think that GR was one of the four novels envisioned
>> in the Donadio letter, possibly M&D as well, but we also know that  
>> the
>> "Japanese insurance adjustor" was one of them, and that ended up in  
>> VL.
>
> How do we "know" that? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I  
> know, "The
> Japanese Insurance Adjustor" wasn't mentioned anywhere until Bill  
> Roeder's
> article in Newsweek in 1978. It certainly wasn't mentioned in the  
> Donadio letters,
> at least not in the quotes that surfaced in the NYT.

OK, sure ... But I'd be pretty certain that it was one of the ones on  
the drawboard back in '64 as well. Don't forget that the Donadio  
letter (only one "letter", not "letters", no?) only says that the  
novels are in "his head" at that point.

cheers