From page 272, chapter 27 of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon. The phrase “against the day” appeared in chapter 13, on page 125. Perhaps I should be on the lookout for the phrase “bleeding edge.”
Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon)
From page 272, chapter 27 of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon. The phrase “against the day” appeared in chapter 13, on page 125. Perhaps I should be on the lookout for the phrase “bleeding edge.”
Biblioklept 
I’m pretty sure bleeding edge and inherent voice appear in a few other novels too.
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[…] From page 571 of my Penguin edition of William Gaddis’s novel J R. The phrase appears as part of the character Jack Gibbs’s work in progress, Agapē Agape. The phrase is not especially uncommon, I suppose, in art history, and I (obliquely) remark it in this post for my own amusement. […]
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