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Very nice. Thanks!


Corbeau Castrum via Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> schrieb am Freitag, 9. Januar 2026 um 14:11:

> There are some basic similarities shared between Pynchon's detective novels post-ATD, presumably the genre conventions as he understands them. They consist of:
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> a private detective protagonist (i.e. not police/the state) who tries to remain “professional” (“Trying to be professional here,” 3 IV “Hicks trying to stay professional,” 2 ST)
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> is deaf and dumb (“Deaf and dumb, part of the job,” 4 IV, “Professionally D and D,” 36 BE, “D and D, Lino, that’s me,” 26 ST)
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> is happy to work without immediate pay (“All on spec, eh?” 7 IV, “Not that I mind working on spec,” 11 BE)
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> struggles with matrimonials (“I don’t do matrimonials, man,” 191 IV, “I hate matrimonials,” 127 BE, “[…] too bad that matrimonials, as you’ll recall, were never my line—” 4 ST)
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> There are perhaps some other commonalities exclusive to Pynchon's detective novels but these are the ones most obvious to me.
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