Pynchon's censored file aesthetic

[Mark Kohut]

Well, we know he changed the working title, which he was prepared to go
with.  (This title stayed on manuscript copies that
Viking had and gave out to paperback houses before they, Viking, even
published it.)

We know he kinda worked up to and thru the last minute, retyping it ALL
himself he told a young female phone-answerer at Viking.

So, why not come up with some name changes in the stretch?

Some of the Nixon stuff is pretty late in time.

Like The White Visitation?-- who knows?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:55 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:

> Ok so I made a pretentious title for this post which is pretty much just a
> random idea/question. When I was reading Gravity's Rainbow I got the
> feeling that some of his proper names particularly The White Visitation
> were like, the possible term escapes me, words inserted after the true name
> had been erased. Like if you are listening to a recording of someone talk
> and he keeps mention someone but when he says that name a computer voice
> chimes in. God this is the worst attempt at explanation. But anyways I was
> wondering if maybe this idea could connect to Pynchon's "layering"
> technique of writing. Any thought?
>
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