Re: IVIV (15) 273—7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38

[Robin Landseadel]

I've got a swell idea—you stick to looking for Inherent Vice's  
connections with "The Great American Literary Tradition" and I'll  
stick to looking for connections to the time and place where the book  
is set. There's always political content in Pynchon's books that is  
relevant to both the specific time and place where the novels are set  
and also to the time when the novel is published. Every time anyone  
comes up with political threads in Pynchon that connect to modern day  
spying, clandestine operations and the political food chain as it now  
stands, you respond like you just did. I have no clue as to what you  
motive is, but you started out by calling the book "crap" and you  
haven't let up since. The threads pointing to Howard Hughes are  
explicitly stated in Inherent Vice. The directions you're attempting  
to lead us aren't.