V-2nd C4 The Search for Bridey Murphy / corrigenda

[David Payne]

Right before reading Michael B. looking for connections between chapters 3 and 4, I happened to read Luc Herman and John M. Krafft's "Fast Learner: The Typescript of Pynchon's _V._ at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin".
 
Initially (i.e., in the typescript version), Pynchon placed the revised _Under the Rose_ as chapter 13. His editor thought that readers would be confused by the timeshift (1956 NY to 1898 Egypt), so Pynchon moved the chapter and added an intro. The relocation sandwiched UtR into the previously back-to-back material that became chapters 2 and 4. The intro added the overt mentions of Adams.
 
Pynchon reworked the novel with these (and many other) changes in under 3 weeks, which astounds me.
 
This is all a long way of suggesting that Chapter 4 wasn't really written to carry forward Chapter 3.
 
Maybe I'm wrong.
 
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:24:45 -0400, Michael Bailey (michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com) wrote:

> --- and if the bouncing into this scenario can be said to proceed from
> something in Chapter 3, as in, maybe, contiguity or juxtaposition to
> the Stencil material ...