Rent

[John Bailey]

Real estate generally is pretty big in Inherent Vice and Bleeding
Edge, but maybe that's just a reflection of the times, or P's later
home-owning ways? In IV the supposedly countercultural free-livin'
idealists are still pinned within a system that ultimately owns them
(you gotta pay the rent at the end of the day) and in BE this extends
to the internet, which is an anarchic frontier at first but later
becomes a heavily surveilled shopping mall.
Can the relationship between renters and landlords be extrapolated
into a broader existential dynamic? It's worth a thought.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Chase Carnot <chase.carnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> "[...] Crocker Fenway chuckled without mirth. ‘A bit late for that, Mr.
> Sportello. People like you lose all claim to respect the first time they pay
> anybody rent.’"
>
> When I saw PT Anderson's IV, this line jumped at me for the first time. In
> the novel, it must have just washed over me. Anyway, I've been thinking
> about diving back into the novel sometime soon with an eye toward rent as a
> central theme. I felt vindicated when a reading app I use cropped the IV
> 'Last Supper' poster... it left the center...
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/zaJops8hNHUrju2u6
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