my scrub jays & underground men

[Mark Kohut]

The Underground Man, MacDonald's----Dostoevsky allusion, we know----was reviewed famously
by Eudora Welty, as the lead, front page review of the New York Times Book Review in
TRP's (relative) youth.
 
The late Ross Macdonald, too, demonstrated the form's capacity for social criticism and psychological insight. ''In our day it is for such a novel as (Macdonald's) 'The Underground Man' that the detective form exists,'' wrote Eudora Welty. ''I think it also matters that it is the detective form, with all its difficult demands and its corresponding charms, that makes such a novel possible.'' 

Betcha we're gonna have to read/reread MacDonald--yea, right--- just to START annotating "Inherent Vice" fully.
 
To repeat, since Heikki has found this wonderful, sure connection: MacDonald's 'solutions'
to the crimes almost always involve what we might call "Freudian" or psychological 'family dynamic'
perversions.......
 
What a wonderful contrast, hapless, slacker Zoyd contre jour Lew Archer.......
 





----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:35:15 AM
Subject: Re: my scrub jays

Cool. . .
Gotta get me a copy of that "Underground Man."

On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

>  things seem to be
> getting intertextual.