Re: Thomas Pynchon: ‘Inherent Vice’

[rich]

isn't the kid who stole the Dude's car, the kid who's dad is in an
iron lung named Larry?

'this is what happens Larry when you fuck a stranger in the ass'

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Know I'm all alone out on this limb here, but see a Dude/Walter Sobchak
> relationship between Doc and Bigfoot. Also see some co-ordination in the art
> department, the set design & some of the punchlines, vide Joseph. And then's
> there's Jesus Quintana and we all know what you don't do with the Jesus.
> Elliot Gould in Robert Altman's  "The Long Goodbye" also comes to mind. As I
> recall one of the writers who's given a description of the reclusive author
> said that Pynchon looked a bit like Elliot Gould. I've mentioned "Nick
> Danger" too many times already and if "Big Shot" comes to my mind—and I
> think it should be in yours . . .
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYULQT2ObkU
>
>  . . . remember that the Bonzo Dog band is mentioned twice in Inherent Vice,
> both times in the most absurd and apt settings one could devise while still
> maintaining a perfectly Chanderian pretext for the odd goings on.
>
>        " 'Darling? I've been beaten up again!'
>         Let's face it, she's credulous as hell."
>
> I'm detecting a deep affection for the work of Vivian Stanshall on display
> in "Against the Day" and—in particular—in Gravity's Rainbow's songs and
> dances. Some folks will never find certain of Pynchon's jokes funny.
> Something like "The President's name IS Schicklgruber." or the guitar solo
> in "The Canyons of Your Mind" would just fall flat with this crowd.
>
> Whatever else Thomas R. Pynchon Jr. may or not be, he's got a penchant for
> making jokes in the styles of the aforementioned Hazy Dicks and Spotted
> Edwardians. There's a certain affinity, an admixture of surrealism and black
> humor. As Joseph said—a shared sense of humor, a shared awareness of the
> moral calculus of karma.
>
> One more thing: what Doc 'n the Dude & Gould's Marlowe and Bachelor Johnny
> Cool all have in common is that they're all Chandler parodies.
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>
>> On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> I agree, I don't see that.. But there is some affinity of style between
>> the Coen Brothers work and Pynchon's work.  Something about moving from wry
>> satire to dark violence and tragedy , something about karma.
>>
>>> On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Robert Mahnke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am I the only person who just doesn't see the Sportello/Lebowski
>>>> thing?  I mean, I get why people are more likely to see Lebowski in
>>>> Sportello than, say, Mao Tse-tung or Nadia Comenici, but they're just
>>>> not all that similar, are they?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Dave Monroe
>>>> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nzbc.net.nz/2009/11/thomas-pynchon-inherent-vice.html
>