IVIV parody?

[Robin Landseadel]

Remember—this is a noir.

Part of the rules of the game in Noir is that most of the participants  
are "shaded"—rendered sinister by the nature of the form. In these  
sorts of tales everyone is touched by corruption. Very applicable to  
the L.A. basin. The out of control property development/car culture  
leads naturally to dystopian visions of future climate change. Hardly  
matters if you're attempting to do the right thing or not—the inherent  
vices of simply living in L.A. at that time leads to a net loss. The  
final scenes of the novel, the Lakers losing the playoffs, the  
enveloping fog attest to these losses.

On Oct 24, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Mark Woollams wrote:

> Isn't part of the inherent vice the melting of these social roles?  
> Doc plays both "good guy" and "bad guy" because he's a human being.  
> I think part of IV is Pynchon's toying with our perspectives. We no  
> longer know who is good or bad, the world isn't black and white.  
> Instead everything has blended together and we're left in a stoner  
> state of confusion. Are we high? No, we're just over-stimulated.