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Also from the novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'']. This is another detective favorite of Pynchon from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain James M. Cain] (1892-1977), the other being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(novel) ''Double Indemnity'']. Cora, a ''femme fatale'' figure, is tired of her life, married to an older man she doesn't love and working in a diner that she wishes she could own and improve. She meets a young drifter, Frank Chambers, and they very soon begin a passionate affair and eventually scheme to murder Cora's husband in order to start a new life together without Cora losing the diner.