IVIV cultural context: Marlowe/Doc

[Mark Kohut]

I like it. Pynchon turns Marlowe inside it and slyly suggests the hidden
subtext of The Big Sleep. 

No real way to make a connection 'tween in the texts, don't think, but a nice spec based on the time-changed era, so to speak.

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net>
> Subject: IVIV cultural context:  Marlowe/Doc
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 1:15 PM
> The pussy-eating is pretty much,
> well, in your face, in IV, isn't it.   Maybe
> that's some of the "filth" Marlowe is
> investigating in The Big Sleep?
> Mark:
> IV as spoof-homage? my first reading.
> Rational Marlowe vs. Doper Doc
> Tough world  vs. low intensity one
> Macho marlowe   vs. Pussy-eating Doc
> Bad Boy Marlowe  vs. All-Hangs-Out Doc
>