Mischianza '77 mix-up?

[Laura Kelber]

I got into a whole kerfuffle a while back about some date inconsistencies
in GR. At stake: how old was Bianca when Slothrop fucked her.

Because Pynchon does such meticulous research, it's hard to accept that
he'd make an error, and more believable (or at least we want to believe)
that there's a specific reason for an apparent error. Hey, somewhere
there's a whole list of typos in the various editions of his books. I'd
read the  '77/'78 discrepancy as just a cigar. But I'd be willing to
embrace any theories to the contrary.

Laura

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Alain Champlain <alainfchamplain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the first paragraph of Mason & Dixon, the date of the 'farewell Ball'
> is given as '77. The notes I've found on this book point to articles where
> the date is given as '78, but I haven't seen any mention of the error: am I
> missing something? It seems strange to open on the error (rather like
> Nabokov's Ada), but stranger still that I've found no mention of it -- or
> at least not yet.
>
> Simple error? Help?
> (New here, many thanks)
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20170416/8027dc6b/attachment.html>