Inherent Vice: The Title

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:13 AM, rich wrote:

> just thinking out loud

And lots of first-rate thinking there, a lot of it beyond my ken. I  
don't think this book represents any drop in powers for this author,  
but there is a clarity and directed-ness to the storytelling itself  
that's different and welcome. It's still is Pynchon, it still really  
doesn't come into place so much as expand and re-arrange and re- 
position itself in your head. But there are passages—particularly the  
last page—that sound and feel like an old man comin' on. I sure that  
Pynchon must be one of the youngest old men on the planet, but he's  
old enough to really feel mortality now. I think that's a major reason  
he's exposing himself more these days. That's the real message of his  
Penguin video, like the Duderino sez how like , dude, it was mostly  
high and these might have been inspirations that arrived in a somewhat  
weirder form in Gravity's Rainbow and howzabout them Tommy Burgers,  
anyway?