On "Mindless Pleasures",

[Mark Kohut]

It was not seen that way by publishers then. They had the manuscript, complete, titled, to bid on. 
It was going to press. 
Titles seldom change at this stage.....changed....

From: "malignd at aol.com" <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: On "Mindless Pleasures",



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?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20130510/13e8253d/attachment.html>