IVIV1: Introducing Pynchon's burgher

[John Carvill]

> On Doc's moral centre ... I'm never quite sure what this kind of thing is
> supposed to mean.

What? How can that be hard to get? It was a topic thrown out for discussion.

>Words on the page.

What? Eh?

> Doc does make a decision that he will
> investigate this case without being formally hired; as I've said, this
> recalls late-Marlowe, the PI who isn't selling a service

Yes, you sure have said that.