P: Typo in Gravity's Rainbow?

[Mark Kohut]

Very good to know....I might wager that when asked for permission to do the 
Penguin Classics edition, Ms. Jackson and TRP demanded to proofread and correct 
that other edition. And choose, with Penguin accepting, the cover......




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From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, April 7, 2011 12:52:31 PM
Subject: Fw: Re: P: Typo in Gravity's Rainbow?

Probably a scanning error that wasn't caught by the proofer whose time was 
limited to a set number of hours, i.e., the number of hours it would take to 
read the number of words once. Good to know, however.  


-----Original Message----- 
>>From: Edward 
>>Sent: Apr 7, 2011 12:55 PM 
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
>>Subject: P: Typo in Gravity's Rainbow? 
>>
>>p.672, Penguin Classics Deluxe, speaking of Katje:
>>
>>"Once she would have been asessing as she laughed, speaking of edges, deeps, 
>>profit and loss, H-hours and points of no return--she would have been laughing 
>>politically, in response to a power-predicament, because there might be nothing 
>>else to do." [bold mine]
>>
>>The error is non-existent in the Penguin Classics edition (rocket schematics 
>>cover), p. 659. What gives? Was the Deluxe Edition prepared from an earlier, 
>>uncorrected copy? I've noticed other errors of spelling or typography in this 
>>edition, and I regret now not having marked them down. 
>>
>>
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