Early Pictures of Pynchon

[Robert Nelson]

It is a working draft and lots of changes were made as Pynchon worked with
his editor, Ray Roberts, to bring it to final form.

This, along with the typescript of V. held at the Harry Ransom Center
(University of Texas) provide interesting insights into Pynchon's
development process. Of course, the proofs of V., Gravity's Rainbow, Mason
& Dixon, and Against the Day also show earlier versions of Pynchon works.
Scholastic research on some of these is available if you want to look into
the matter further.

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:38 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow. The first page of the Vineland prepublication copy suggests that
> it's like reading a whole 'nuther book. Does it continue in that vein?
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks! I've since found this:
> >
> > https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html
> >
> > ... and this:
> >
> > https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html
> >
> > But do note, the same link if clicked from that page is broken:
> >
> > https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.mead/index.html/
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Robert Nelson
> > <twainpynchonnabokovbrautigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Mead has pictures from Pynchon's Senior year. These are from the year
> >> prior to that,
> >>
> >> Enjoy the site, which is my personal collection. Of particular note are:
> >>
> >> BOMARC Service News - Pynchon worked for this Boeing magazine from
> >> 1960-1962. I'm aware of only three sets of this magazine in existence.
> >>
> >> Mason & Dixon Uncorrected Proof (as opposed to the ARC). There were
> only 5
> >> copies of this, and only 2 of the first state.
> >>
> >> Vineland Prepublication Draft - One of five copies pulled from a working
> >> draft for the Publicity Department, since Pynchon and Ray Roberts were
> >> editing the work right up to the publication date.
> >>
> >> Limited Editions of Slow Learner (20 copies) and Vineland (8 copies) of
> >> loose, unopened, sewn signatures.
> >>
> >> Bob Nelson
> >>
> >> <
> https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RnNZfQn2o2xpggJQqefCOervMbPIci5mujDPJnvl43kv6Rtxjyh5gHN_JKVzeU-aaGz3pePFgxfoAAtZJZNx8mveVTc-11j98EfuAJVcumUenA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can't recall what if any of this was reproduced in Clifford Mead's
> >>> Thomas Pynchon: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials
> (Elmwood
> >>> Park, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1989) ...
> >>>
> >>>
> http://books.google.com/books/about/Thomas_Pynchon.html?id=WyhbAAAAMAAJ
> >>>
> >>> ... which I'm ashamed to say I don't currently have on hand (most
> >>> everything I own is in storge' I live in one small room @ the moment,
> so
> >>> ...), but thanks! always good to have immediate acces to this stuff,
> plus
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/index.html
> >>>
> >>> I'd never seen this site before, at any rate. Thanks again!
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014, Robert Nelson
> >>> <twainpynchonnabokovbrautigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > The 1952 Yearbook of Oyster Bay High School has pictures of Pynchon
> >>> > from his junior year - both in the Junior Class Picture and in the
> picture
> >>> > of the Spanish Club. He would have been 14 or 15 years old at the
> time of
> >>> > these photos.
> >>> >
> >>> > I've never seen these pictures in any other published work or on the
> >>> > web.
> >>> >
> >>> > You can see them at:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> https://staging.airflowsciences.com/rkn/Pynchon/None.yearbook52/index.html
> >>> >
> >>> > It's interesting to note that, although the 1953 Yearbook states that
> >>> > Pynchon was in the National Honor Society during his Junior year,
> the 1952
> >>> > yearbook does not list him as such, and he doesn't seem to be in the
> NHS
> >>> > picture.
> >>> >
> >>> > Bob Nelson
> >>> >
> >>
>
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