Inherent Vice: Counterpunch review

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Sun Aug 2 13:06:46 CDT 2009


On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Raymond Schiffer wrote:

> Ha... great review, and a nice note about Pynchon's knowledge of  
> surf music.
>
> I thought Alan Cabal's personal anecdotes (exploring the lunar  
> surface?) were maybe made up as an homage to Pynchon.
>
> Then I found a bio of Alan Cabal:
>
> http://www.squidoo.com/Alan-Cabal
>
> Ray

Kinda hard to figure out Pynchon without at least some occult  
background. Hell, his entire written output is devoted to occult  
backgrounds.




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