IVIV reception: "Pynchon's PI, Doc Sportello, is a paranoid pothead"

[Doug Millison]

Where the hardboiled-era heroes wore battered trilbies and slugged  
bourbon, Pynchon's PI, Doc Sportello, is a paranoid pothead who hides  
his gun in the flare of his bell-bottoms and works out of 'LSD  
Investigations' (Location, Surveillance, Detection).

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