Early publications: "Mortality and Mercy"

[Scott Drake]

I think "Entropy" was also reprinted in Nelsen Algren's Own Book of Lonesome Monsters (1963) and in '83 Aloes did a pirate

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"Entropy" was, at least, reprinted in a Best American Short Stories of its year collection. Which actually became a mass market paperback edition in those heavenly days. I think Tim Ware, at least, owns the paperback. 

It may have been reprinted elsewhere before--and after, for that matter---Slow Learner.

"In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job" , the slightly-different variation of the story was reprinted in an anthology called, I believe, Black Humor of the Sixties. 



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To: "Krafft, John M." <krafftjm at muohio.edu>; pynchon-l at waste.org
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Subject: Re: Early publications: "Mortality and Mercy"

I suspect that I made that insinuation by posting that all the reprints of Pynchon's early stories were bootlegs. I guess that the much-reprinted [and rather dire] "Entropy" should also be mentioned here.

Of course, "Slow Learner" came out as all the reprints started to turn into bootlegs.
On May 29, 2010, at 5:02 AM, Krafft, John M. wrote:

> Somebody (sorry, but the digest strips names, addresses and subjects) suggested that M&M hadn't ever been legitimately reprinted. Actually, it was collected in _Stories from Epoch: The First Fifty Issues_ (1966), where it was better edited than in the original. It has also been translated into Hebrew and German--maybe other languages too.
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