IVIV cultural context: Marlowe/Doc

[Doug Millison]

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

It was difficult not to think a similar thought that last week when I  
was reading IV and at the same time finishing up The Big Sleep then  
moving on through Farewell, My Lovely. Wouldn't be surprised to learn  
Pynchon had them on his desk or otherwise within reach -- or perhaps  
the lovely Library of America set of Chandler's works -- the whole  
time he was writing IV…and COL49.

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> 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.


I think there may be some direct allusions/references in IV to Chandler.

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