Word Count

[Mark Kohut]

I cannot find the thread wherein Monte, I think, gives us the 46,000+ word
count for The Crying of Lot 49 but it lead me to look up the word count of 
Heart of Darkness which is @ 38, 700+ just for comparison. 

And, continuing to chew on Pynchon's words, the famous dissing of, The Crying of Lot 49, this surfaced for the first time....IF in 1984, he felt that CofL49 was a "short story marketed as
A novel" and he could/should certainly know works like the above marketed as " a novel, a novella"---for which he exceeded by 15%....
 
Do YA think he was adding to his possible belief that he now felt the symbolism in it was too heavy-handed, too much like the rain in THAT story and he should have cut it to a good short
story? 

We will probably never know but what think ye? 

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