RE: finished IV…

[Carvill John]

>  Seems to me IV is at one level a sort of guideback
> through the author's back catalog, although readers who are
> encountering Pynchon for the first time in IV may not see it that way.


Tracking where in P's previous books all the little arrows in IV point will definitely be one of the most interesting parts of our Group Read, I reckon.


> It might be interesting to compare Doc's movements through Lower
> California, with Philip Marlowe's.


Very possibly, yes.

> Some beautiful passages in this book that sneaked up and made me stop
> to ponder, the way some passages have done in my recent re-reading of
> Chandler.


True. The whole book sort of 'creeps up' on you. I found the (for want of a better word) Pynchon-ness of it came on gradually, a bit like an LSD trip in fact.
 

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