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

[Michael Bailey]

David Payne wrote:

> Pynchon reworked the novel with these (and many other) changes in under 3 weeks, which astounds me.

slow learner, fast writer?

>
> This is all a long way of suggesting that Chapter 4 wasn't really written to carry forward Chapter 3.
>

ok, but then those changes were made...  (-;

Thanks for mentioning it.  I agree with Luc Herman and John Krafft
that the changes do seem to be an improvement.

Getting us started early on the Stencil thread seems like a good idea,
since it is rather huge both
in size and importance...

and if his first draft was _not_ overtly mentioning Henry Adams, it
seems like he was overestimating his readers


...although now, I wonder what his original scheme was: was he going
to insinuate Stencil in more
gradually and build up to the 8 impersonations?
Because Chapter 3 *is* a whole lotta Stencil right off the bat...

just to be a contrarian, I suppose...but in 2013 maybe for the 50th
anniversary of its publication (and in celebration
of surviving 2012) there could be a V. "director's cut"...

now I know people say Whitman shouldn't have kept changing Leaves of
Grass, but one more version of V couldn't hurt, could it?