other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, David Kipen<kipend at arts.gov> wrote:
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>> I'm here for you, John! Not sure about stoned all the way through, but for my money IV recalls a decent book and even better movie every bit as much as much as it does Chandler, Macdonald or Cain: Roger Simon's The Big Fix. Know it? The monologue at the end from a young F. Murray Abraham stacks up favorably in memory against anything in The Big Lebowski...
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> Roger L. Simon, The Big Fix (1974)
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> http://ebook30.com/novel/novel/95284/the-big-fix-a-moses-wine-mystery.html
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> http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/roger-l-simon/big-fix.htm

>From Roger L. Simon, The Big Fix (New York: iBooks, 2000 [1973]), Ch. 1, pp.1-5:

"The last time I was with Lila Shea we were making love in the back of
a 1952 Chrysler hearse ..." (p. 1)

"... an attractive leggy young woman with short blonde hair ..." (pp. 3-4)

   "I took a closer look at her...  It was then that I recognized Lila." (p. 5)

"She had changed.  The hair was different and her bearing more mature,
more self-assured." (ibid.)

Cf. ...

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_cover_analysis#Cover_Art

"Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he
remembered ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)

Good call, David ...