irony, parody, and a baroque richness and intensity

[Mark Kohut]

In his introductory essay on Blood Meridian for the Modern Library edition, Harold Bloom writes:

"There are passages of Melvillean-Faulknerian baroque richness and intensity in "The Crying of Lot 49", and elsewhere in Pynchon, but we can  mever be sure that they are not parodistic." 

Seems one of our challenges in our group read of Inherent Vice, if we believe our favorite Falstaff-lover above, is to find what is NOT parodistic in Pynchon's overt P.I. parody......