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Oziel Souza ozieldesigner — "Tubular, Dude!" "Inherent Vice" is often described as "Pynchon-Lite". However, the novel’s themes are no less cerebral (or entertaining or hilarious) than it predecessors. On the basis of just one reading, I think they’re consistent with at least "The Crying of Lot 49", if not also "V" and "Gravity’s Rainbow". "The Crying of Lot 49" was partly concerned with investigation or detection, the process by which we discover knowledge or become enlightened. In its case, the investigator was a lay person, Oedipa Maas. Here, it’s a private eye, a gum-shoe or as the cop Bigfoot calls the long-haired, dope-smoking, surfie, hippie protagonist, Doc Sportello, a "gum-sandal". Doc is stuck half-way between a professional and a lay person. Inevitably, though, while he's around, he's on the lookout to get both stoned and laid. He's the quintessential scooby, tubular dude. The dude abides, but not legally, a la the Big Lebowski! Clue Me In At the beginning of any crime story or novel, we know nothing, we haven’t got a clue, except perhaps that a crime has been committed or that one will be committed during the timeframe of the novel. Over the course of the novel, the detective and we, the readers, seek out, we search for, clues, and hopefully we find them. Gradually, we start to put the clues together, until we have a plausible explanation of the crime. Eventually, by the conclusion of the novel, we have some kind of resolution, some kind of order. In a way, the typical crime novel proceeds from chaos to order, by way of a process. "Inherent Vice" does just this. Pynchon throws a lot of characters, relationships and factual material at us. There’s no need to get too preoccupied with it or to master it all on the first reading. Together, it constitutes a world of chaotic detail. The important thing is that, seemingly, it moves towards a resolution or order of some sort. It doesn’t matter what the nature of the order is. It’s sufficient, as in any crime novel, that order is restored. However, this is a Pynchon novel, and order is not enough. In fact, it’s the polar opposite of the norm. Order, Vices, Entropy If there’s any word or state you can associate with Pynchon, it’s "entropy". If the novel moves towards order, it actually reverses the Pynchonian process of entropy. That can’t be right, can it? So, what is actually going on here? The novel is set in 1970, almost forty years before it was written. We can work this out from the dates of the Charles Manson murders and the basketball games that are referenced. Pynchon apparently sees this year as pivotal in the battle between different world-views. America is unhappily ensconced in Vietnam. The hippie movement is in full conflict with the straights, whose males are pissed that nice flatland chicks are out in search of secret hippie love thrills. The straights enlist vigilantes as well as an Aryan Brotherhood army. Hippie scum duke it out with Nazi-ass motherfucker lowlife. Add to the mix a Mansonoid conspiracy! It’s all happening, bro! While the government is preoccupied with Vietnam and an internal battle with hippiedom, it’s the Mafia and syndicates of property developers (and rogue dentists) who run riot. Anything goes, when it comes to them. Ironically, business doesn’t prefer the condition of chaos. It wants its own kind of predictability and stability. It wants guaranteed and recurring returns. The Mafia doesn’t thrive on chaos. It’s all about organised crime. It works against entropy. Inherent or Extrinsic Vice? Order is artificial. It’s a product of humanity. It only occurs when humanity works against nature. The title of the novel refers to the inherent tendency of any physical object to deteriorate over time because of the instability of its component parts (as opposed to any deterioration caused by external forces). Vice is a flaw. It is inherent if it is contained within the object itself. In any system, some vice will be inherent, and some will be superimposed by external forces. The difference in legal and insurance terms is that you can’t make a claim against an insurance company for inherent vice. It’s a risk you must assume and undertake, like original sin. It’s built into and assumed in the object or the system. On the Beach, a Pavement Like crime, humanity superimposes order on nature. In the epigraph, Pynchon quotes the French Situationist grafitto from 1968: "Under the paving stones, the beach!" The more order we superimpose on nature, the more we detract from it, the more we move away from nature itself, including, potentially, human nature. Over time, as with the paving stones, we obscure the nature that lies beneath. Crossing the Desert of Perception in a Caravan Doc seeks the truth, he seeks enlightenment, this time in parallel with the cops, the professional police force. Only they have different motives. Doc seeks the truth, whereas they seek to impose (law and) order on society. 1970 represented a period of major uncertainty in American and world culture. A fog descended over the community. On the highway, progress stalled. People couldn’t see where they were going. Everything ground to a halt. Cars came to a standstill, lined up one after the other: "He was in a convoy of unknown size, each car keeping the one ahead in taillight range, like a caravan in a desert of perception, gathered awhile for safety in getting across a patch of blindness." Well, I Got a Foggy Notion In order to solve the crime, therefore, Doc bands together with the LAPD. He collaborates, he forms a caravan in order to collectively work their way through the fog of the unknown. Still, it doesn’t come naturally to him. Something about the fog appeals to him. You can’t tell the difference, you can’t discriminate in the fog: "…nobody could tell anymore in the fog who was Mexican, who was Anglo, who was anybody." "Somehow, To Be There Instead" In a way, the fog also represents the uncertainty of the future, a world that heralds the internet, surveillance, paranoia, conformity, insularity, despite the talk of a global village. In the 40 years since the timeframe of the novel, all of these things have happened. To quote the Rolling Stones from 1974, "these days it's all secrecy and no privacy." "Inherent Vice" is shot through with a romanticism for 1970, a nostalgia for a time when perhaps history might have headed in a different direction to the one it took. Pynchon’s narrator seems to wish that Doc could have left the caravan, the line, the queue, pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and waited for whatever else might happen: "For a forgotten joint to materialise in his pocket. For the CHP to come by and choose not to hassle him. For a restless blonde in a Stingray to stop and offer him a ride. For the fog to burn away, and for something else this time, somehow, to be there instead." Forty years later, we have to infer that nothing else was there instead, because inevitably, it seems, we've ended up where we are. Can it possibly be enough, though, that we have this novel and a film? Can they make up for it? What do all the young dudes think? Is this work just a vehicle for celluloid or digital heroes? Anyway, nicely rolled, Pynch! SOUNDTRACK: Rolling Stones – "Fingerprint File" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNkaN... "And there's some little jerk in the FBI Keepin' papers on me six feet high It gets me down, it gets me down, it gets me down Well, it gets me down, it gets me down I know, they're takin' pictures on the ultraviolet light You now I ain't right, oh yeah, alright Yeah, I know babe, but these days it's all secrecy and no privacy Oh, good night honey, sleep tight." Rolling Stones – "Fingerprint File" (Killer Version 1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1crY... A slightly slower version. Rolling Stones – "Fingerprint File" (Live in LA on July 11, 1975) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgxQ... Absolutely stunning bass by Ron Wood. Van Morrison – "Caravan" (Live in 1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGu4E... Here is video of twelve songs from the 1973 concert with the Caledonia Soul Orchestra live at the Rainbow Theatre in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhDo... Parts of this concert ended up on the live album, "It's Too Late to Stop Now". Bloods – "Into My Arms" (From the E.P. "Golden Fang") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWZ9g... Official Trailer – "Inherent Vice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfs2... Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman - December 8th 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1d0Q... Radiohead – "Spooks" http://www.stereogum.com/1721447/jonn... Click on the Soundcloud link for an extract from the film soundtrack.

Luke Previs lprevis — 14 cd's as a audiobook. A good book with alot of trendy topics that would be of interest to the Wired and Neil Stephenson crowd. Maxwell's Demon,The entropy of information, codes,Goedel, Turing, Babbage, Ada, how new forms of new information technology: printing, the dictionary, telegraph, telephone, television changed things. I found it clearly written, fun and interesting. I would like to have given it 4.5 stars.

Oberon Lai m6159263cfd — This one would be worth having on your shelf!