IV thought - SPOILER

[John Bailey]

I was thinking Coy... but left it open so you foax could make your own
connections.

Lots of reasons *not* to think of Coy in that way, but the weird pull
Doc feels towards Coy - in fact, to me, more like *loyalty* to him -
mixed in with the fact that he is considered dead by the world at
large and can't kind of move on whevever because he's bound by karmic
misdeeds... just seemed like there was more going on. Why does Doc of
all people make Coy and family his number one priority at novel's end?

Plus Coy is depicted as way cooler than Doc in a way both respectful
and vaguely resentful.

2009/8/13 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> Oops, it was supposed to be a suggestion to John.
>
> Or maybe the Trillium connection.
>
> J
>
> 2009/8/12 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>