IV Random thoughts

[rich]

moral hero no but I think Pynchon sets him up that way or maybe he wants
Doc to be the tough amoral gumshoe but there just isnt enough in the book
to warrant either notion I would argue.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> Right, but Sportello is called "Doc" by everybody, through which Pynchon
> tells us that Larry is lying here.
>
> And nobody will be able to sell me Sportello as a moral hero, since we
> also learn that he did rat in a 16-year-old girl just because she was
> selling some horse.
>
>
>
> On 17.05.2013 20:57, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> and alice, Doc claimed he never actually *used* that hypodermic needle!
>>
>
>
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