IVIV Doc/Marlowe

[Doug Millison]

Robin:
> I don't understand the problem of calling a perfectly preterite and
> stylized character such as Philip Marlowe a product of his times—hell

Maybe the burden should be on readers who choose to argue Marlowe as  
somehow rising above the common prejudices of his era?

Likewise as we look at Doc and peel back his layers and how they might  
relate to the rest of Pynchon's books, and the authors Pynchon engages.