Bleeding Edge

[Don Higgins]

I suspect the book is still be edited by Pynchon, if what we know about his previous books is any indication, or at least what we known about the books for which pre-publication versions have become available. For V. see Hermann and Kraft's three essays; Vineland is substatially different from the manuscript in Austin and in Rushdies papers (I forget where they are and am too lazy to look it up at the moment but Rushdie had an early version, unless the manuscript in his papers is different from the one in Austin), and M&D is 14 pages longer than the proof that can be had, with edits made throughout and also some formatting issues (I haven't actually seen it, not having the income to buy a copy but I corresponded with someone whose income afforded him the pleasure of getting one. Little was apparently done to GR after it was turned in, but a couple of years before, Pynchon was worrying about the value of the version he had, and we do know that a
 character was removed: his name accidently appears in the first three printings. The error was corrected in the fourth printing. There's a paper on the issue in a volume of Pynchon Notes (again too lazy to look it up). I haven't heard anything about earlier version of the other novels, though I do recall that the Amazon page count changed for Against the Day by quite a few pages. I was too stupid to save the info. Would like it now. Maybe its in the archive. 

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From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> 
Cc: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge

On the Kindle page it still says 512 for the hard cover.  I suppose they haven't updated it yet.  I was thinking that because the Kindle versions are sometimes a few pages shorter due to the formatting and it might be something like that.  But it's probably not.  Could still be formatting issues, though.  Take out the blanks between each chapter,  reduce the margins,  decrease the font size … 

Also,  there are 161 days until BE actually hits the stands - a lot of things could change in that time. 

Bekah
waiting,  waiting … 

On Apr 9, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...  the sixteen missing pages ...
> 
> On 4/9/13, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> now 496 pgs from 512 according to amazon. suspect that'll keep on changing
>> till due date
>> 
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