V--2nd, half-way

[David Morris]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm taking the page count of my copy -- the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition -- and dividing by two.

At which point you proceed to completely ignore Rich's point:

>> but the original novel was 492 pgs making pg. 246 the middle, no?

Restating the point:  Wouldn't the original page-count be the
"significant" one, assuming the author intended any significance to a
mid-point point?  Obviously he had no way of knowing what future
edition pagination would be, so isn't your mid-point thesis severely
undercut unless you use the first-edition versions of each?  And even
then, there's no way Pynchon could have known how the pagination would
play out, unless he specifically indicated how to lay out the printed
pages.

David Morris