The Battle of Editions

All though I still think the change of Stark's name to Talos to Polk's "Restored Edition" of AKM highly questionable (given Talos's literary pedigree, I wonder if a footnote would've sufficed given how out of place and literary the name sounds), I've decided to go with this "restored" version of AKM particularly because Polk argues that the original incarnation of Jack Burden was even more "smart alecky" than his published form.  Polk also argues that Warren's editors often scaled back some of his more sordid depictions for the sake of decorum and these omissions have proved to be quite sardonic.  Scenes involving both Burden and Anne Stanton have more bite to them in terms of descriptive flair and do a lot of work highlighting his reflective masochistic state.  Similarly, Polk's restored edition takes into account the point of telling (Burden, we learn by the end of the book, is married to Anne) and thus keeps passages which complicate the relationship between of the Hetrodiegetic and Homodiegetic Is.  Beyond these considerations, most of the scholarship of AKM has been grounded in the previous edition, thus making further use of Polk's edition all the more enticing.