IVIV IV & Playboy article

[Robin Landseadel]

On Nov 1, 2009, at 10:50 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> . . . but I must object to the
> hammer approach. It's too blunt.

No wonder you hate Inherent Vice. Thing is, the CIA is a hammer in IV.  
Take it or leave it, that's the case here. I can see a more nuanced  
political reading in Vineland and Against the Day—at what point does  
"serving the cause" become taking up the methods of "Them"? There's  
less of that in IV. Then again, there's less of that in Raymond  
Chandler's works too.

When I did a zillion posts in "Against the Day" my main interest was  
tracking he development of what eventually became "The New Age"—what  
Lenny Bruce called all those "unscheduled theologies."

Again, this all may all be happening because there is so much  
autobiographical reference in IV.