Inherent Vice review John Carvill

[John Bailey]

Not the only VL character cross-over either.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Michael
Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Robin.  I enjoyed that!
> So, Sledge Poteet, from Vineland, shows up in IV...
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> Robin noted:
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>>        BY JOHN CARVILL
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>>        Thomas Pynchon's darkly satirical masterpiece, Gravity's
>>        Rainbow, doesn't so much lodge itself in your mind as burn a
>>        permanent hole in the fabric of your psyche. Its structure is so
>>        complex, convoluted, and self-reflexive that it doesn't so much
>>        have a "plot" as a "Mandelbrot." It doesn't so much come to an
>>        end as twist itself round, like some sort of multidimensional
>>        mobius strip, to meet up again with its own ominous beginning.
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>>         Along the way, so many ill omens and grotesque morbidities
>>        have flown past that it might seem impossible for Pynchon to up
>>        the portentousness ante any further. As the final chapter of the
>>        book unfolds, however, he manages to trump himself once
>>        more, inviting us to imagine a situation so irretrievably dire that:
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>>        Philip Marlowe will suffer a horrible migraine and reach by
>>        reflex for the pint of rye in his suit pocket, and feel homesick for
>>        the lacework balconies of the Bradbury Building. . .
>>
>> Long, detailed review, here's the rest
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>> http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/65/65pynchon.html
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