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From: jwp@sdchem.UUCP (John Pierce)
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Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 16:43:38 EST
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A few months ago I found "Slow Learner", published in softback by Little, Brown
in 1984.  It's five of his early short stories, with a fairly interesting
foreword (by Pynchon himself).  Pricey at $7.95, but far better than nothing.
Really serious Pynchon-watchers will remember at least three of them from
20-25 years ago (they were, I think, in the New Directions anthologies circa
1960 though I may have read them in some more obscure place), but two I'm
certain I've never seen before.

I find it interesting that "The Crying of Lot 49" seems to be fairly available
again, but I haven't seen new editions of either "V" or "Gravity's Rainbow",
and I really need a new copy of "V", since mine's a now-20-year-old paperback
that I'm reluctant to let anyone else even look at, much less read.

				John Pierce, Chemistry, UC San Diego
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