NOT PYNCHON but The Great Gatsby

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

I dig IV.  I disagree only slightly in re: playing it straight because,
when it comes to Doc's shootout with Adrian & Puck...

It was pretty powerful to me because the manner of the deaths were as
unexpected as death itself.  I didn't think the bad guy'd just keel over,
so it was both startling & a king-hell cinematic relief because I was so
invested in Doc by that point.  Like Mongo the Magnificent (see link) I
rilly, rilly grokked Doc, I didn't want to see him strapped to a chair and
tortured, this is Pynchon, that's not the movie I'm here to watch...
*glancing nervously for the fire exits*  Awful... dark... in here...

The tension worked for me.  It was solid noir because everything before it
was pretty pat P.

link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo_the_Magnificent
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