Pynchon on the mountaintop

OK, so all mad Pynchonites are madly scrutinizing the dropped post on amazon.com, written by him, about his forthcoming novel, as book editor Jim Concannon points out below. As of 1 p.m. Friday, the sales of the December novel are already going great guns - "Against the Day," as the 992-page tome is apparently called, was number 643 on the Amazon tally. (Given that your basic obscure novel can ring in somewhere in the high six digits, anything below 1,000 for a book still six months away from publication is incredible.)

But where are the conspiracy-posts about the title of the novel? We believe it's Biblical, and something scary and apocalyptic. Like, say, Proverbs 21:31, The horse is prepared against the day of battle:
but safety is of the LORD.

Or Peter 3:7, but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Romans 2:5 speaks of "against the day of wrath and revelation." Given Pynchon's own description of the novel - "With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places" - then it seems likely his title alludes to one of the darker tenets of the Good Book. However it plays out, we have a feeling it isn't going to be pretty.