Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[Michael Bailey]

grladams wrote:
> OK, what I find so disappointing in IV is the lack of deep artful writing
>  about the core topic of the book,

like the movie Doper's Greed?

> wake up and smell the
>  coffee kind of way, to dangers that whether we agree or not, whether we
>  like it or not, bring about a concretization that the 60's or the old ways,
>  are over.
>

they were supposedly the new ways - but always an underground movement,
never a majoritarian thing to begin with


there might be a gathering of people celebrating freedom, but always
at the fringes and even at the center were the take
care of business types (even Doc, as it becomes clear)
(and the subtext that it might be necessary to come to some
form of accommodation with that)

this is elucidated over and over again in diabolic variations,
in prose not so much purple as hazy...






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