Bleeding Edge

[Antonin Scriabin]

I'm going to guess that the first scene will be underground.  Possibly in
the subway, possibly sewers.  Just a hunch.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Don Higgins <bencanard2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>   *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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