Cape CL49

[Markekohut]

Yeahp....Have never known the years involved so 1979 question is still good. But I have heard, no verification---that there was some kind of ....tussle...over the rights to the earlier books. 
Original agent would still have those rights. Or perhaps what Ms. Donation did not do was part of the problem?

Still, why no concern later? Could it be explained by TRP's famous minority opinion re the quality of CofL49? And/or did he maybe like the life imitating art of a corrupted text of that book w a
famous corrupted text? 

See Proverbs for Paranoids. 

And we have no idea, do we, when TRP and Ms. Jackson met? And whether there was
A relationship before she became his agent. I have always assumed, based on nothing but
A guess, that there was. That after the relationship came the representation. 

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Don Higgins <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, Jackson didn't start representing P until around 82 but maybe as late as 83, and Picador was 79. I don't know anything about a British or international agent, however, so maybe. Still P's relationship to Jackson was close, so why couldn't she have asked P about V.? I guess she might not have thought it was important, but P, we know, made the corrections that showed up in the Bantam and Cape editions of V., so he was aware of the issue, though maybe not aware that it would have to be dealt with again. By 2005, I would guess the errors were in many cases scanning problems fixed by a proofreader who did not consult an earlier text, though it is hard to explain how Rachel became four-foot nine instead of 4'10". Surely the scanner would have reproduced numbers, however bolluxed the reproduction. 
> 
> --- On Tue, 9/11/12, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Cape CL49
> To: "Don Higgins" <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, "Pynchon List" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012, 8:44 PM
> 
> I don't have any answers but part of whatever problems there have been MAY be because
> Of Pynchon's change of agent?
> 
> Workers, later editors, who handle earlier books will know nothing about the publishing so
> Will rely on agents --or authors themselves, which would not be TRP, we know.
> 
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