Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[Michael Bailey]

grladams wrote:

> OK, maybe I sort of brought on, within myself, a magnetic need to attach a
> core topic to the book, and when the Wolfman plot came about, my mind
> instantly wanted that plot, about how he's a sorta defective/reformed
> capitalist, moving money the wrong way in the system, gave me a vibe

I had the same urge - in fact, I devoted a lot of space
in my hosting to trying to unwrap the Wolfmann subplot
(because his was the "bullgoose" mystery as Randall Patrick
McMurphy might say)

so you are not alone in that


> to speak, of just so many other Pynchon novels, that we'd get to indulge in
> many side stories that would explicate this phenomenon.


in IV, we get many different characters quoting Mickey,
but the man himself doesn't get to talk to us

 as I've mentioned many times on the list, for me
a Pynchon book is "normative" or maybe "originary" or
has the status of a postulate in geometry

so I can't say I'm disappointed, anymore than I'm disappointed
that the frenzy of GR is unique to that book, or the sweet hippie
Schadenfreude of Vineland stays there, or the archaic neologisms (sic)
of M&D are only to be found between its covers, or the wastrel charm
of Benny Profane has no successors...

sufficient to try to elaborate and successively
knot into what Mickey was about, given only what is told in the
book and the twisted associations it educed in my mind


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