First Page of Bleeding Edge?

[Tyler Wilson]

This isn't directed at you, Mark, or any one person in particular, but: 

How do we know this is the first page, other than it certainly does read like an opener? Wouldn't have to be, though. The IV excerpt was, but the AtD snippet certainly wasn't. 

I'm just curious whether there was some official word that I may have missed?

I've got a good feeling about this one!
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T


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From: markekohut at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: First Page of Bleeding Edge?
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:14:47 -0400
To: jamie at bigdada.com

Bobby Dylan performed 'close enough for folk music ', as the phrase goes, near me over the weekend and I wanted to go ' but the unswerving punctuality of chance'--Gaddis --intervened.
Anyway, the local reviewer praised Dylan's warmth and intimacy' which I think is a good phrase to describe my feelings about the first page of BLEEDING EDGE.
As wonderfully warm and happiness-embracing as, maybe, the opening of Mason & Dixon yetsoon full of the hints of danger that exist in happy bourgeois lives ( like ours; like his?)---the possibility of careening cars; the danger of ' rolling aluminum' scooters---that reminded me ofplaces within Against the Day like that. 
We remember the 'socially utopian' happy merging of cars at the end of Inherent Vice--an anarchic working out in practice, in California in 1970; here we have the feared (paranoid?)possibility of a car out of control.  
And in that essay on cars in Pynchon someone will write, we Think of V, 50 this year of BLEEDING EDGE. 

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On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Jamie Big Dada <jamie at bigdada.com> wrote:

Reads very much like Pynchon to me. Brilliant opening and an excellent teaser!
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/first-page-of-thomas-pynchon-novel-bleeding-edge 

Yours truly,
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Henry Musikar, CISSP
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