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[Carvill, John]

> Josiah
> I couldn't help thinking about Dick the whole time I read IV.

Really? I kept thinking about pussy.

Ok, sorry, that was cheap. Of course I totally agree. What's the name of
that trilogy of PK Dick books, where he thinks he's receiving messages
from God or aliens or whatever, and starts working on his own cosmology?
Anyway the autobiographical way those are written, where he has a
fictional character, who is the author of such books as 'Three
Stigmata...' etc., living in Berkely and so forth, I found very
evocative of a time and place (where I've never been), in a similar way
to Inherent Vice. Naturally, there are other parallels between PKD and
Pynchon, which have been much discussed. But this autobiographical
aspect is very strong.

I got put off Bukowski because I heard Bono droning on about him. I did
eventually get a copy of John Fante's 'Ask the Dust' and loathed it. All
that depection of seedy California had, I reckoned, already been much
better done by Chandler, and the actual storyline, with the would-be
writer and some girl(s) he meets, I found almmost unbearably unpleasant.

Cheers
J