Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?

[Prashant Kumar]

Is that Sergio de la Pava? I'm reading his *A Naked Singularity* at the
moment. Excellent, but I can see why the major houses bounced him a couple
of dozen times.

P.

On 3 August 2012 01:28, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't, yeah, I mean if that's the case.  I think of it as, printing out
> your manuscript in the form of a book, replicating it numerous times, then
> buying it for people and sending it to them, probably without them asking
> for it first.
>
> There's some fellow out of Chicago who got picked up by some big real
> house with a giant contract because of his own book though, so maybe that's
> what happens.  Publish it yourself, send it out, then get published?  I
> guess as opposed to just emailing it to people.  You get to make your own
> cover.  Which might be cool, I don't know, having a book you wrote in book
> format with your own designs, inside and out.
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Prashant Kumar <
> siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Isn't it the literary equivalent of masturbating in public?
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On 3 August 2012 00:16, Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I've not looked into self-publishing.  That's what AuthorHouse is isn't
>>> it?
>>>
>>> It says it's free, what's the problem there.  I mean, how does one go
>>> wrong with self-publishing, how can that ever go wrong?  You take your
>>> manuscript to a printer, basically, or is there more to it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> De range hand say: DO NOT EVER PUBLISH WITH AUTHORHOUSE.
>>>>
>>>> You're welcome.
>>>>
>>>>   *From:* Madeleine Maudlin <madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com>
>>>> *To:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>>> *Cc:* pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 1, 2012 4:33 PM
>>>> *Subject:* Re: Is the uncertainty principle culturally deranging?
>>>>
>>>> Oh der*anging*.  Mr. Kohut is certainly *that*.  I would never use
>>>> that word though, or any deranged derivative there, hem, of.  If I did it
>>>> would be in the best sense possible, which for me would be exceedingly
>>>> *good*.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody write here?  I just got an email, who knows why I'm on
>>>> their list, I haven't tried to publish anything in years, from a place
>>>> called AuthorHouse, subject says Publish today and get a no-cost bump-up.
>>>>  So I guess it's free, today, if you want to get published.  I'm currently
>>>> stuck on page 400 hell with no end in sight.  432.  What is it about 400?
>>>>  The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer to it than
>>>> the Earth, or something.  Bumping-up, m
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 8/1/2012 10:23 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but not pejoratively so I hope
>>>>
>>>> P
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>>>>
>>>> P.
>>>>
>>>> On 1 August 2012 23:52, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1976/oct/28/plastic-fiction-3/
>>>>
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