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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