Downey on Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

The most imaginative IV reading yet! 
 
The Crying of Lot 49, kinda inside out and mirrored.
 
Lot49 starts with a quest from a dead man.....
the PI follows what she thinks are dead ends......
There is a mysterious death (prob suicide in self-defense) 
and a climactic auction which might reveal whether ends are dead. 
 

From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> 
Cc: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>; Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Downey on Inherent Vice

There are so many mini-journeys that dead-end and have no connections
with anything else in the book.  Diversions are one thing, but it
seems the book's trajectory starts with a PI's quest for a dead man
and ends with a climactic attempted murder and self-defense killing.
Nearly everything in between seems extraneous dead-ends.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> David, some suggestions, editing-wise? (For the book, I mean; if you
> make a script out of a novel, say Moby Dick, you don't call it
> editing. But perhaps you would have edited that book as well.)
>
> J
>
> 2011/12/9 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> Filmable if the source is heavily edited, as the source should have
>> been before publishing.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> One of my first reactions to IV was that this was filmable.
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