IV thought - SPOILER

[Mark Kohut]

Thematic reasons....which I'll wait until the group read to argue.

--- On Wed, 8/12/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV thought - SPOILER
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 8:07 PM
> 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.
> >>
> >
> 
>