IVIV (2) Help!

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> There've been a number of posters who seem to agree with Tore that IV is, in a small sense at least, an autobiographical novel.  After all TRP lived in roughly this place at roughly this time and (for those who know the time/place) gets the details exactly right.

Though LDS, it seems, is a bit younger than TRP'd've been ...

> While Pynchon, like Doc, may have been stoned/tripping sometimes/often/always, and partaking of all the hedonistic opportunities available, it's impossible for me to read Doc as a Pynchon analog.  The important thing about Pynchon during this time in this place wasn't that he was as hedonistic as the next guy, but that he was writing the greatest novel of the 20th century [or fill in your own superlative].  Doc may share behaviors or attitudes with Pynchon, but I'd say he's merely a window into the conventional aspects of an otherwise genius.

A.greed ...