IV, A...and it's so funny, too.

[Mark Kohut]

During Robin's hosting, I want to accent a quality
he noted often during the run-up to our Group Read,
to his hosting:

Inherent Vice is hilarious; more hilarious than Dr. Hilarious.
I know many plisters have been saying that, but I did not
feel it as much as many until listening to the audio, all 
squinting earnestness let go. (Yes, self-criticism, "shouldn't work but it does", has taught me: I am often too earnest---especially in my reading; especially in my reading of Pynchon.)

But, feeling the pervasive lightness of being [to surely misuse that allusion] of Inherent Vice does lead to feeling how different, as some have argued here, is IV's humor, sometimes lame, contrasted with it as more
of a counterforce against the more overt seriousness of THE BIG BOOKS. 

Anyway, my perspective this morning, which will surely change when I reread
the big books.