IV thought - SPOILER

[Joe Allonby]

Coy?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did anyone else have a feeling that a certain character in IV might be
> a kind of tribute to Richard Farina? I did.
>
> Not a character based on Farina - Pynchon says that Farina's own novel
> "didn't just take things that had happened and change names." But more
> of an emotional valency between Doc and this person that seems curious
> and sad to me.
>