IV thought - SPOILER

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Allonby" <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: "John Bailey" <sundayjb at gmail.com>
Cc: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: IV thought - SPOILER


> Coy?

How about Bigfoot?

But seriously I did think the love/hate relation between him Doc was very 
well done.

Was this a reprise of M&D?

Too farfetched?

P

>
> 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.
>>