Bleeding Edge

[Keith Davis]

I'm guessing that we all need therapy!



On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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