Critique of mental health in Inherent Vice

The critique of mental health is that it blames the traumatized. Doc in Inherent Vice says that Coy has been going to the right wing mental institution, private because Ronald Reagan closed down all the state institutions. But he kicked heroin. But he keeps going because the right wing sorting out needs refreshers? It's not clear. Maybe he's unstable without his family? Who knows. That psychotherapy is interminable? Maybe it's a good thing to get tune ups, and follow through.

Deaths in Inherent Vice: Glen Charlock (?), El Drano (?), Bigfoot’s partner Victor Indelicato (Prussia, Puck), Rudy Blatnoyd (Crocker Fenway). Do Puck and Adrian die at the end? Not known.

How does Doc make money. He made a little money going to Vegas with Trillian, who had Puck's number. But Hope Harlingen would perhaps pay. Hard to imagine it was enough to float Doc. One person gave him a bogus credit card for payment. Yet he doesn't want money from Crocker Fenway (movie)?

It took me 8 days to read, took one day off. One of my favorite books now. I watched the movie twice, but I wish I'd waited till after I read the book, though honestly then the movie wouldn't have been as good.

Reddit has the first summary and questions for chapters 1 and 2. What is the connection with the '68 Paris Riots? I didn't know, so I had to look it up. They almost overthrew the government. Will we ever overthrow the government? In recent history in the USA, there was almost an overthrow of the election of the middle of the road politician in favor of a right wing autocratic one.

Came across this article by Pynchon: A Journey Into The Mind of Watts. Also this recent comment on IV: The Sea of Memory and Forgetfulness: Inherent Vice and the Figurations of Fossil Capital.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

Character list of Inherent Vice the novel

Fay "Shasta" Hepworth played by Katherine Waterston in the 2014 movie Larry "Doc" Sportello: Our hero, gumsandal. Shasta Fay Hepworth: Former beautiful love interest. Mickey Wolfmann: Real estate tycoon, Shasta's sugar daddy, paying for apartment in Hancock Park. Mrs. Sloane Wolfmann: wife. Has her own side piece Mr. Riggs Warbling Deputy DA Penny Kimball: lawyer from district attorney office, who fooled around with Doc for a time. Works next to Rhus Frothingham (female book, male in movie). Aunt Reet: Aunt in real estate. "Bigfoot" Christian Bjornsen: Hollywood detective and actor. Married to Chastity. Spoiler: His partner Vincent Indelicato is wacked by Adrian Prussia, but Puck did the actual job. Mrs. Chastity Bjornsen: Gets on the phone on page 260 of the paperback to defend Bigfoot's day off from work. Calls Doc Mr. Moral Turpitude, accuses him of running up Bigfoot's mental health bills. Denis: friend who he goes and gets a pizza with...

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Dark Brandon meet Dark Alex. I see her advising the republicans to stick to their guns and never compromise. They don’t want to do anything, only obstruct. So they don’t actually need to be unified. Chaos isn’t organized. This is fine. Read all about it from Heather Cox Richardson , a historian who covers current events. "As their policies threatened to lose voters by concentrating wealth upward and hollowing out the middle class, Republicans increasingly warned that minority voters wanted socialism and were destroying the nation to get it. Trump rode that narrative to power, and now tearing down the current government is the idea that drives the Republican base." While we're at it, here's another funny photo from the Onion: And then: I listened to the Times podcast about George Santos . He basically lied about, I don't know, 80% of his resume, and has a mysterious $700k in his "corporation" which has no clients. So he's a Russian or Chinese plant, o...

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