PKD and TRP

[Mark Kohut]

Interesting? In the first canonical volume of Dick's works, novels from the sixties, Time Out of Joint is NOT included.

Backmatter says it was published in 1959 by Lippincott, P's publisher for V. 

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> From: umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>
> Subject: PKD and TRP
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:35 AM
> On 4 Sep 2009 at 13:30, John Carvill
> wrote:
> 
> > or
> > 'Time Out of Joint', being a 'precursor' to Gravity's
> Rainbow.
> 
> It's something more than being a precursor, and something
> less. I 
> wrote an article on that, which was kindly published by
> Pynchon 
> Notes. Let's say that there's a character (name's Ragle
> Gumm) in TOJ 
> who can predict where certain missiles will fall, which is
> more or less 
> what Slothrop's hard-ons seem to do in GR. There are maps
> in both 
> novels, and conspiracies in both novels; the main character
> must 
> somewhat escape in both novels. Then TOJ is much smaller
> and less 
> complex than GR... yet it's quite clear that TRP had read
> it while he 
> was writing GR, and borrowed some ideas.
> _____________
> umberto rossi
> 
>