Love in IV/VL

[John Carvill]

> ... all those embittered and cynical remarks about love (not to speak of
> marriage: Hey Tom, everything alright with Melanie?) in Inherent Vice ...
> I wonder what happened to Pynchon in the 1960s ... Seems, since the motif
> had already been there before but now got emphasized up to the dust jacket's
> synopsis, that some tricky lady took advantage of him and later on did
> let him fall ...
>

Well, there was that brouhaha over Jules Siegel and Chrissie Jolly,
Pynchon's ex-old lady, back in the day.

The great Larry Daw on Jules, etc.:

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/pynchon_lineland.html

Just for the hell of it - She's Your Lover Now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYkf_iYFsho