Unscrewing the navel allusion

[Ben Canard]

1962 is an error the typescript was turned in June of 1961, as best as can
be determined. Here's an article about a memo in which the writer discusses
accepting it.


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Jeff Sunbury <jsunbury at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love that story. The mental image conjures a cartoon by Don Martin (w/
> MAD magazine 1956-1988) in which a man pulls an annoying hair from his
> shoulder with the sound effect "POINK" and his arm drops off.
>
> inre the publication of V. - I re-read V. in March this year and came
> across a 2009 grad student thesis: (RE)VISIONS OF GENOCIDE:NARRATIVES OF
> GENOCIDE IN THOMAS PYNCHON’S V. AND GRAVITY’S <http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553016/joycePeytonMeigs.pdf?sequence=1>
> RAINBOW<http://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/553016/joycePeytonMeigs.pdf?sequence=1> that
> refers to an April 1962 typescript draft of V. in letters between Pynchon
> and his Lippincott editor, Corlies 'Corky' Smith, also, the ref. 'Smith,
> Shawn. Pynchon and History: Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern
> Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon. New York: Routledge, 2005.
> I'm new to this P-list so this may be old news.
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It is 1958. "Candida was delighted by [Robert] Gottleib's [S & S editor]
>> enthusiasm for the Catch--18 manuscript.[[only 75 pages]. Finally,
>> someone got it! "Ii thought my navel would unscrew and my ass would fall
>> off, " she often said to describe her happiness
>> when negotiations went well with an editor."   She had also received a
>> positive response from Tom Ginsberg at Viking.
>>
>> S & S, we know, did publish Catch-22 and Ginsberg, a decade later,
>> Gravity's Rainbow.
>>
>> I think it is clear from the stuff about Candida from this bio that
>> Pynchon woudda probably read Catch-18 while he was writing
>> V. as, at least I hinted at,,\ I say proudly full of myself, when I think
>> I found some echoes of Heller in the early parts of V....
>> Candida sent it, gave it, to about everybody.
>>
>> Catch--22 was not published until October 1961,  approximately 6--9
>> months before V. would have been set to be published by
>> Lippincott in early 1963. (We know part of V. was published in 1961, but
>> I do not know when V., finished, was offered to
>> publishers, if it was...(that is, unless CD had made a deal early with
>> Lippincott based on a major part of it.)
>>
>>
>
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