IV which chandler?

[John Carvill]

Someone is always missing in Chandler!

The Long Goodbye and Farewell My Lovely spring to mind, but if you
haven't read The Big Sleep then you'll want to read that, whether it's
relevant plot-wise or not.


2009/9/12 umberto rossi <umbertorossi_000 at fastwebnet.it>:
> I've already read messages which highlighted the connections
> between IV and Chandler, but which Chandler? Somebody said
> Pynchon took something from several Chandler novels, but surely the
> main plot is closer to The Big Sleep, where Terence "Rusty" Regan is
> missing; in P. Mickey Wolfmann is missing, and Mickey sounds
> rather Irish to me (though the surname is German, especially with
> the double n spelling that--somebody says in the novel--Mickey
> always insisted on). Being beyond page 200 (well beyond) it won't
> take me much to check if the ending is also similar... (now that I
> think of it, the missing man theme is also present in The Long
> Goodbye...).
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> umberto rossi
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