link to Thomas Jones 2009 review of Inherent Vice in LRoB

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I may be missing the trees here (it's the Mason in me), but- the critique of this interesting thematic summary of P's work up to and including IV, which follows it in the form of a letter, is fascinating- and equally, Jones's response to Wood's letter.

It's not fair of me to compare Wood's attitude to that of Crocker Fenway, and, by extension, that P's characters are not clubbable- at least not in any setting that Wood is willing to imagine- but if "literature" were real estate, the comparison might not be too unjust.

And, of course, there is my realization that given five minutes to spend in conversation with someone, Jones would surely prefer the company Wood to me- I'm not a member.


> On Dec 21, 2014, at 5:51 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> with a great first paragraph on Prof Corey accepting the Nat Book
> Award for Thomas Python.
> It came into the archives all garbled when cut & pasted.
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> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n17/thomas-jones/call-it-capitalism
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