other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

[David Kipen]

I'm here for you, John! Not sure about stoned all the way through, but for my money IV recalls a decent book and even better movie every bit as much as much as it does Chandler, Macdonald or Cain: Roger Simon's The Big Fix. Know it? The monologue at the end from a young F. Murray Abraham stacks up favorably in memory against anything in The Big Lebowski...


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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Doug Millison
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 1:37 PM
To: Pynchon-L
Subject: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

Any other examples in the genre, of a detective who's under the
influence of marijuana all the way through the novel as seems to be
the case with Doc?