First Page of Bleeding Edge?

[Dave Monroe]

p. 33 (paginated as p.32)

http://booksellers.penguin.com/static/pdf/penguinpress-fall13.pdf

On 4/16/13, Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> CC: scuffling at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
> 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,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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