Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 8:59 AM, alice wellintown wrote:

> But Mark and Robin and
> Robert has chimed in on this as well, have argued that the narrative,
> while tussled or self-conscious, is still reliable. I disagree.

This is all about "not reliable", unreliability is very much the point  
of Inherent Vice. We've got Scherazade on a hashpipe, as per usual  
with TRP. Thus the "Inherent Vice"—it is as if we have found the  
mighty amassed stonage that lies at the bottom of the question: "What  
the fuck is "Gravity's Rainbow and please remind me why I was still  
paying attention in the first place?"

At the bottom of "Inherent Vice" we have an author looking at his  
younger self and the haunts of his former self when he was writing  
Gravity's Rainbow  and asking—"How the hell did that happen?" The  
protagonist of Inherent Vice is always looking for clues and he's  
always distracted by the circus going on around him. It's a wonder  
that we still know how to breath.