A Naked Singularity - finished!

[Mark Kohut]

I wonder if the author disallowed any editing? Selling like a rocket when
self-published, when company or companies wanted it, he might have gotten a
contract lawyer to write that into the contract...Take it or leave it.....

And,w hy should I spend any time editing it when it was selling so fine as
is....all that time off the market just to 'cut' stuff.....
Nah.....

I would have counseled him to take the immediate republish as is
deal......Unless a publisher paid for time off the market....

Maybe major trade publishers did want to buy and publish after editing
so......univ of Chicago did not?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> I and many (most?) others agree that the manuscript needed an editor
> before being published by the Uni of Chicago.   I can’t even remember the
> story he told his niece (ha!),  but there were several parts I thought were
> simply extraneous.   Also,  there was too much space given to what were
> really digressive thoughts and ideas.   Casi thinks too much and Benitez
> seems not to think at all.
>
> I rather enjoyed the boxing parts and Googling the factoids.  It’s
> incredible that even with all this extra stuff included,  the narrative
> never really bogs down and that’s simply due to the smart and funny
> language.
>
> That next to the last chapter - about Casi's family afterwards talking
> about a new baby and love?   I think a minor theme was the closeness of
> immigrant or Hispanic families  (in contrast to the jungle of the DA’s
> office).   And I also think it’s supposed to give the reader hope that Casi
> won’t get into trouble again because he has strong roots there.
>
> That same chapter, btw,  has an epigraph which says,  “Nature and Nature’s
> Laws lay hid in Night: God said, 'Let Newton be!’  Alexander Pope”   -  and
> so everything gets happy and light - (night, darkness and confusion is the
> usual situation.)  -
>
> The actual last chapter was cool to me,  but the epigraph said,  “This
> epigraph is a lie.”  and tying up the ends was kind of fantastical.
>
> Becky
>
>
> > On Jan 11, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't skip anything, but I thought the story he read to his niece was
> pretty much superfluous. I'm not a boxing fan, but found his writing about
> it pretty compelling, for the most part.
> > The next to last chapter(?), near the end anyway, seemed a little
> extraneous, too.
> > Some of the dialogue is really hilarious.
> > Overall, some tasteful editing would be good, but still a great read.
> (I know I said that already.)
> >
> >
> > Www.innergroovemusic.com
> >
> >> On Jan 11, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The connection to boxing is pretty much thematic.  There’s nothing in
> the crime plot which really ties there.  But the connection to Dane’s
> search for perfection along with Casi’s troubles (loosely mirrored in the
> the career of Benitez) is what interested me.  It didn’t go really deep
> though.  By about 2/3rds of the way through I saw it and started really
> paying more attention.
> >>
> >> Becky
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jan 11, 2017, at 12:18 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I plead guilty to skimming the boxing digressions. I see in your
> review that they tie in at the end. Is it a quick, obvious tie-in, such as
> a "why we fight" or "we struggle because we must" sort of comment, or is
> there something thematically deeper? You don't actually have to give me a
> detailed answer - just feeling guilty for not paying more attention. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Laura
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >>>> Sent: Jan 11, 2017 12:54 PM
> >>>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >>>> Subject: A Naked Singularity  -  finished!
> >>>>
> >>>> Whew!   Brilliant book which could have used an editor - lol -  Loved
> it!   Thank you Pynchon-l because I doubt I would ever have come across it
> on my own.
> >>>>
> >>>> There’s a legal thriller tucked in here,  but it’s deeply woven into
> a systems/ideas novel.   My review:  https://beckylindroos.
> wordpress.com/012017-2/a-naked-singularity-by-sergio-de-la-pava/
> >>>>
> >>>> Becky -
> >>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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