Newsflash: Other People have read Raymond Chandler!

[Carvill, John]

> Robin:
>  At all times and in all ways, Pynchon is giving a nod to Raymond  
Chandler....

Enough with the Chandler, man! How many people on this list didn't see a 'connection' with Chandler the second they heard Pynchon's next book was gonna be an LA-set 'psychedelic noir'?

> .... Chandler may  
> not have been speaking directly of military installations as being  
> pits of illegal activities,...

He sure wasn't.

Sorry to be negative, but boy do you know how to hammer a theme. Chandler. We get it.