IVIV parody?

[Henry Musikar]

If Doc is any less than wholly genuine, it begs the question "who is?"
Doc's internal dialogue/narration is as pure hippy/stoner as The Dude's, and
don't forget Lebowski's willingness to do a little work for the man.
Slothrop was in the Army, for gooness sake, and M&D were cutting up the
earth itself for aristocrats.  That Doc is not a crazed idealist only makes
him more real/genuine and less of a symbol for some ideal that Pynchon has
repeatedly illustrated as (usually)  delusional and unrealistic, and one
extremity of which was Charles Manson, the most famous hippie ideologue of
all.

Henry Mu
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