On "Mindless Pleasures",

[Lemuel Underwing]

I-I'm sorry, did I miss something?


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:57 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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