Downey on Inherent Vice

[jochen stremmel]

Ever read Hammett, Chandler, the lot? Lot of dead ends, connected by
Spade's, Marlowe's ways and the whims and imagination of their
authors? Happens all the time ... in real life as well.

2011/12/9 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>