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I love those Library of America editions. Of course, I rarely get to see books lined up on shelves anymore, in libraries or in stores, not like the old days, climbing the ancient winding stair minus the bald spot in the middle of my brain where the rain gets in stops up my muddled mind and the thin and thinning skin that licks its lips into the corners of rats alley and curls up under twin dim bulbs burning over Moliere's Misanthrope, climbing past the Pale Usher--threadbare in coat, body, heart, brain, there dusting his old grammars and lexicons, mumbling, poor preterit fellow, random allusions extracted by the sub-sub-librarian, up to the stacks fearing rape or worse, having to retrace my steps to the maple catologue only to discover that some selfish and stupid sophomore had ripped the card out. Unseen lightspeed mail no pony ever expressed at a snailmail's pace, paceing to the tune of my titanium and plastic Dupont pacemaker, thub, thub, thub, lightspeed to film speed to text speed to number speed to dark ages or woods to live deliberately and not to suck the marrow out of life but to be absorbed and not distracted, to teach us to keep still, to only stand and wait, in devotion, in focus of our own making, poor players on he stage but players still, not film stars and show biz kids.       Our lady readers will pardon us if we pause for a moment to seek what could have been the thought concealed beneath those enigmatic words of the archdeacon: "This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice." ---- On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:21:59 -0500 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote ----  Fewer. Gotta be with one publisher, as Updike was with Knopf. (Even the new translation of Remembrance of Things Past is not all the volumes...yet...later volumes still under later copyright...) Now we have the Library of America editions....Bellow, Updike, Roth, Dick, others... Graham Greene was done this way by Bodley Head (England), I believe. Vintage, Picador and some other paperback houses try sometimes to gather in the licenses and do unifrom paperback editions----but that isn't quite what you're thinking of, I'm sure.. ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, January 22, 2011 6:57:50 PM Subject: quick question Hi, list and especially Mark, who I know is involved in publishing I probably should research this myself, but you know how you can go to libraries and see like "Collected works of Goethe" in 40 volumes and stuff... do they still put those out for people like, oh, I dunno, Heller? that is, are today's authors as voluminously productive, any of them, as those old Victorian and Romantic dudes and dudettes? 
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