Downey on Inherent Vice

[David Morris]

Right.  Everything connects Vs nothing connects.

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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>> 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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