On "Mindless Pleasures",

[malignd at aol.com]

Gravtiy's Rainbow is so much better and so different, I would guess that the working title was a joke or a pun ... something to call it while he worked on it.

But interesting to play with the idea that a different title might have shifted, if only slightly, the way the book was received and understood.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreis Passarinho <eastcocker at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: On "Mindless Pleasures",


oh shit u on to something



On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:


the working title of GR, as we know. Is there anything known,
or have we bloviated yet on that possible title, used all the way
through submitted manuscript copies to paperback houses
to read and bid for paperback rights?
 
What would be the mindless pleasures in GR? All of them? 
Everything in it? 
 
And, this occurred to me last evening, prompting this post: maybe
this title was a working contrast to the concept of Mindfulness in
Buddhist thought? 
 
Anyone, anyone, Bueller? Bueller?





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