IVIV Chandler

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
To: "Doug Millison" <dougmillison at comcast.net>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: IVIV Chandler


>> Since I finished IV last week, I've opened the book once, spent a little
>> time looking through the first 100 pages closely enough to establish that
>> Doc consumes enough THC daily, punctuated by LSD trips frequent enough to
>> keep him in a more or less hazy frame of mind all the time.
>
> Yes, but only by inference. I still question just how affected by weed
> Doc is, how much of the time. Of course, it could be argued that
> depicting a character who continually smokes joints, and is therefore
> dazed and semi-coherent and semi-capable, might not make for the most
> engaging of narratives.

Doc seems to be affected by weed about as much as the traditional PI is 
affected by getting beat up and knocked in the head.  He carries on PI 
fashion and ultimately gets to the bottom of the case.

A normal man would've lost heart or motivation.

>
>
>> Marlowe is fun to read about, but what a brute in real life he is.
>
> Poor old Marlowe is taking a kicking lately. Don't think he's anywhere
> near as much of a 'brute' as is being suggeted.

He's just an old fashioned guy,  pretty unschooled in sensitivity training, 
but hardly capable of gay bashing etc.

P