V-2nd C4 *apologia*

[Dave Monroe]

Sorry, a thousand pardons, mea culpa, mea culpa, I honestly thought I
was STARTING sometime in August, rather than FINISHING on the 8th
(having, uh, started, as I didn't, July 26th), so ...

Have been preoccupied with much, and the computer I normally use has
(again) succumbed to some sort of virus, but @ least i'll have
(presumably, hopefully) regular access to this one in the meantime.
Normally I'd simply have stockpiled @ least a couple/few (dozen) notes
ahead of time, but ...

Well, give me a little bit here, tomorrow's going to be taken up by a
buncha personal business (which it the only kind I have these days,
alas), MIGHT be out of town Saturday/Sunday, but i'll hit this as hard
as I can when I can, and should have all next week to catch up, so ...

Did pick up a new copy of the novel for this, by the way, using the
current HarperPerennial Modern Classics ed. ...

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/V-Thomas-Pynchon?isbn=9780060930219&HCHP=TB_V.

--note, by the way, that the HP logo looks like a pimentoed olive ...

http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/index.aspx?imprintid=518008

... but I DO have the other eds., plus J. Kerry Grant's A Companion to V. ...

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/companion_to_v/

... @ hand, so if anyone needs alternate pagination.  Okay ...