BE missing pieces

[Mark Thibodeau]

"IF" interested?

I'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to get pretty much any one of us to
pay for copies of the galley proofs, if there were more than a small
handful of differences. I know I'D pay to see and read them!

MT

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com> wrote:

> there might be. see, i've been translating from the hardcopy proofs
> (logistically, it's more convenient) but read the kindle edition and hasn't
> really compared them. will do it when editing the translation., and report
> to all of you, if interested
>
>
> On 21.02.2015 1:48, John Bailey wrote:
>
>> Does the whole text have alternate passages like this? If you've been
>> sent an earlier draft it'd be quite the big score. I remember one of
>> VL's very late drafts had lots of stuff like this that must have been
>> rewritten very close to publication.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hm, that's an idea ))
>>> putting everything to good use, right
>>> thanks, Charles
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20.02.2015 18:21, Charles Albert wrote:
>>>
>>> Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for
>>> establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance,
>>> functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and
>>> operational information throughout its life.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management
>>>
>>>
>>> Aforemost two stop-blades of this set. 'the stems o't said keys 11T:L are
>>> oll'set as shown at 117D, ll`ig'.;2and their lower extremities are
>>> coupled
>>> 1e-,peetivel v to levers lltL and lltl pivoted intermediate their ends
>>> to a
>>> suitable supporting braeket llt), and eonneetedresl'metively with the
>>> toreniost two slopblades which have laterally projeetinj -lugs ltl and
>>> 113"
>>> embraeed re- .spee 'vely by the bi'l'ureated rear ends ot the levers llo
>>> and
>>> llol. Thus depression ot the key bearing' the numeral lt)
>>>
>>> http://www.google.ca/patents/US990174
>>>
>>>  From a patent on a "calculating machine" adaptation to facilitate (from
>>> the
>>> looks of it) currency conversion. My guess is that the word is an
>>> approximation of "respectively", garbled in some digitization of an
>>> original, handwritten, application.
>>>
>>> Could be a google quest coincidence.
>>>
>>> love,
>>> cfa
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> guys, I'm working now on the Russian translation of BE, and i wonder if
>>>> some of you could help me with this (and for your info anyway)
>>>>
>>>> the kindle edition of the book i have has this passage from chapter 33:
>>>>
>>>> “Welcome to the bridge, Ms. Loeffler.” A loutish youth, unshaven, in
>>>> cargo
>>>> shorts and a stained More Cowbell T-shirt. There is a shift in the
>>>> ambience.
>>>> The music segues to the theme from Deus Ex, the lights dim, the space is
>>>> tidied by invisible cyberelves.
>>>>
>>>> Pynchon, Thomas (2013-09-17). Bleeding Edge (p. 356). Penguin Group US.
>>>> Kindle Edition.
>>>>
>>>> however the text i was given by the publisher who received it via the
>>>> well-known agent, has a slightly diff version of the same one:
>>>>
>>>> “Welcome to the bridge, Ms. Loeffler.” A loutish youth, unshaven, in
>>>> cargo
>>>> shorts and a stained More Cowbell T-shirt.
>>>> "And you are..."
>>>> "Public relations."
>>>> "And right now you're... in uniform? out of uniform?"
>>>> "Actually, there's a menu..." which he reaches into empty air and pulls
>>>> down for her.
>>>> "Hmm... well, this Armani turnout here would look nice on you... Oh,
>>>> and... wait, hat options..."
>>>> Once they get this sorted, the reconfigured Speevely beams at her
>>>> expectantly for a while. There is a shift in the ambience etc.
>>>>
>>>> while it's pretty clear for me that i should stick to the final version,
>>>> as presented in the kindle edition, just for elucidation's sake, what,
>>>> the
>>>> fuck, is Speevely? ))
>>>> Mx
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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