IV thought - SPOILER

[Joe Allonby]

He's the first character I thought of when I read your post.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:07 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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>> 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.
>>>
>>
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