INHERENT VICE (Exploring the cover)

[Mark Kohut]

Since I almost always give TRP the benefit of any doubts....(almost...but
"I'm nobody, etc.".....)

I immediately thought that a preexisting picture--an emblematic and ironic
historic 'frame"---was purposefully part of the meaning of Inherent Vice, as we know TRPs earlier covers have been. 

That is, one speculation, ala The Recognitions, "This eventually develops into making "new" originals--paintings so perfectly in the style of known masters that they pass for newly discovered works."


--- On Sun, 11/30/08, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: INHERENT VICE (Exploring the cover)
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org, robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:39 AM
> Mucho thanks, and massive kudos, for finding the cover
> source, Robin.
>  
> Makes sense - I thought of Neil Young's 'Long May
> You Run' when I saw the car on the cover first time.
> "Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now..."
>  
> Seems maybe a bit lazy to use an existing picture for a
> Pynchon cover, even a touch insulting. And what a picutre!
>  
> Cheers
> JC
>  
>  
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