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[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 6:40 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

>> . . Your reading, Pynchon tips his hat to the hardboiled hacks
> because of some funny-bone affitnity has some legs . . .

My reading is that Pynchon is specifically tipping his hat to Raymond  
Chandler, who accurately mapped out he co-ordinates of L.A.'s haves &  
have-nots, the powerful and the powerless and those echelons of the  
monied class that are untouchable, who in essence control the levers  
of  government, banks, drugs & power grids—the Golden Fang of  
corporate capitalism.