Inherent Vice Review in OrgonLive.com

[Robin Landseadel]

  Vernon Peterson gets into the spirit of things:	

	L.A. was "cursed from the jump." Speculators and developers
	reaped the "worst kind of bad karma," building atop tribal
	graveyards. Mickey's belated attempt at atonement for the
	desecration may not be enough. "They were hard to see and
	hard to catch hold of, those Indian spirits. You plodded along in
	pursuit, maybe only wanting to apologize, and they flew like the
	wind, and waited their moment ..."

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