"A variant"

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Richard:
 
> I have the Harperperennial Modern Classics (2006) editon of CL 49. (Some
> ingrate borrowed my first edition and remembered to fail to return it.)

That's what friends are for.

> At the top of the back cover we have, "The highly original satire about
> Oedipa Mass, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy,
> meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not
> inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge." There is no citation.
>
> Does anyone know whether OBA contributed these comments to the cover?

Well - Pynchon certainly didn't provide the description of Lot 49 as "a
highly original satire" - dunno about the rest. It certainly could be Pynchon
(who wrote the descriptions for the first editions of Vineland, Mason & Dixon, 
Against the Day, and Inherent Vice). The stilted grammatical construction 
"a not inconsiderable" certainly seems like something Pynchon could write. 
The book description on your edition, BTW, is the same on all Harper editions 
of Lot 49.
 
/Tore
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