I have not read this thing before. I am about to read the Baehr/Wells translation of the 1905 edition and am entertaining rebuttals. Does anyone out there vouch for the 1920 edition over--before--1905? Should I just read em both? Speak now or forever hold your piece (lucky you) - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l