IV which chandler?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 3:57 AM, umberto rossi wrote:

> 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...).
> _____________
> umberto rossi

. . . in the Terry Lennox story. Luz and Sloane seem to have come out  
of "The Little Sister" and the arrangements of power in Southern  
California in IV seem to be a latter-day "Bay City". As regards  
Chandler in IV the question isn't so much where to start as the  
question of "does it ever stop?" Of course it does, there's seven  
novels and a few short stories and that's that. But so far it seems  
likes there's little bits and pieces of Marlowe everywhere in Inherent  
Vice, taken from everywhere in Chandler's output.