Thomas Pynchon's new novel: 'Inherent Vice'

[rich]

i'd say bits of lot 49 could make it thru the noir test, no?

tangential connection b/w etherl merman and Nazis from the Producers:

During the song "Springtime for Hitler", Hitler says the line: "Heil
myself, Watch my show! I'm the German Ethel Merman, don't ya know! ...

Merman's father was German--she was born in Astoria, Queens


On 11/26/08, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:01:05 -0500
>> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
>> To: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
>> Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon's new novel: 'Inherent Vice'
>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>> In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre,
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>> an unaccustomed genre? WTF
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>> On 11/25/08, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, JD wrote:
>> > > It sounds... kind of amusing...  and potentially really bad.
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>> > At least the excerpt is, alongside some passages of _V._, the
>> > most straight-forward piece of writing by TRP I've encountered.
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>> >
>> > Heikki
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>> > P.S. Yeh, the cover is horrible.
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>> >
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