IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann

[Mark Kohut]

So, Doc's standard P.I action to go see the new guy gets him entangled in
all the deaths. 

Had he talked to Penny, we might have no story, surely a very different one? 

So, his obsessive love nearly gets him killed, gets him involved in others' deaths and gets Bigfoot on his ass.  

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV Doc goes to find Wolfmann
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 10:22 AM
> > Paul Nightingale, in his
> thorough phenomenological summaries of the action---if that
> is an acceptable way to refer to them, Paul--- and character
> interactions, observes: Doc goes to find/visit Wolfmann even
> though that is NOT what Sasha asked nor, on the face of it,
> would immediately help her, it seems.
> 
> Well it would be hard to state definitively what Shasta
> (not Sasha)
> actually did ask Doc to do, except maybe just mention the
> matter to
> Penny. BUt it's certainly no surprise Doc wants to track
> Wolfmann down
> himself, as has already been noted this is standard
> operating
> procedure. Also, don't you think Doc would want to check
> out the bloke
> who's now banging the love of Doc's life?
>