IV thought - SPOILER

[János Székely]

You mean Doc and Shasta // Farina and the real-life model for Kristin?

János

2009/8/13 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>:
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> ----- 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
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>> Coy?
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> How about Bigfoot?
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> But seriously I did think the love/hate relation between him Doc was very
> well done.
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> Was this a reprise of M&D?
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> Too farfetched?
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> P
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>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:57 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
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