VERY P.; ALL P. .....the new one INHERENT VICE!

[kelber at mindspring.com]

In the pointless speculation department:

Given how quickly this work has followed his major opus, ATD, and given the COL49-ish overlap, doesn't it seem likely that this was written back then and only issued now?  In that case, the title, using one of the definitions provided by Ya Sam:

inherent vice: n. ~ The tendency of material to deteriorate due to the essential
instability of the components or interaction among components.

could be a self-referential joke,  such as Slow Learner.

Laura



-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 25, 2008 7:02 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: VERY P.; ALL P. .....the new one INHERENT VICE!
>
>Sounds more like Vineland than anything else to me (which had plenty of
>nostalgia for 60s/70s California, along with a dope-addled main man, his
>estranged ex...)
>
>COL49, Vineland, Inherent Vice - the little books P knocks off while working
>on the big 'uns. If Mucho Maas makes a Bodine-like cameo in this one it'll
>seal the deal.
>
>On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:52 AM, David Patty <navan.ghee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Cheers.  CoL49 was originally pitched by P. himself as a potboiler...
>>
>>
>> --
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