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[Robin Landseadel]

This all makes me think of the "Japanese Insurance Adjustor"---
Big in Vineland and tied with a pretty little bow to the concept of
"Inherent Vice." For Pynchon, more often than not, issues of Karma
and Japan keep popping up.

On Nov 30, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> This seems to resonate with the interlinking of characters,
> themes and ideas we find in the novels, yes?
> Like one gargantuan, brilliant symphony....
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> Laura,
>
> No, I think Inherent Vice was 'surely
> '---[don't call me shirley]--
> started in the 60s (conceptually) and 70s (physically).
>
> I think that about AtD, as I've repeated.
>
> We have TRPs words about his lifelong writing projects
> from that letter to his agent back in the day.
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