IV "autobiographical"?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> Can I jump both ways at once?

Do the split? Like James Brown? A screaming comes across the stage?

The sense that there is an autobiographical element to Inherent Vice  
is due to the specificity of the citations of Manhattan Beach, food,  
musical preferences—seeing/hearing TRP's songs [particularly the songs  
in GR] in the context of the Bonzo Dog Band: http://tinyurl.com/m3ebst  
certainly helps explain that particular baliwick—freeway journeys and  
other low-level incidentals. Time and place are more firmly registered  
and detailed here than in any of Pynchon's other books.

Pynchon is not "Doc" but Pynchon did an investigation of sources of  
power and the corruption of that power during the era of the  
"Gumshoe" [and the V-2] in Gravity's Rainbow. And while Jules Siegel  
may have had an ax to grind, Gravity's Rainbow is still the most  
spectacularly psychedelic book in American Letters.