teen spirit

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Tim Holahan wrote:
>      
>      Does anyone on the list know if Kurt 
>      Cobain ever talked about having read Pynchon, or was this similarity 
>      discovered by someone else?

Kurt apparently made (it was some number of _Esquire_ - haven't seen it)
a mention of the influence of some _GR_ passage on "SLTS". He did not 
tell which. We speculated on the enigma last summer. I suggested the song 
you mention, "Spirit is so --con, --tay, --juss etc." The song itself is, 
sure, quite  Dionysian and affirmative in "spirit". Maybe the "double 
agent hell" episode (or what the hell it is) as a whole is more 
suggestive of the (disillusioned and impure?) "spirit" of Cobain's song.

Oh yes, those pops of poetic purity, Wimsatt and Beardsley, would no doubt 
say that  it is "intentional fallacy" to make anything of any author's 
afterthoughts 
 
(but then again, what do we have in the refrain, jeepers! 
"a mulatto, an albino" -- that's Enzian and (roughly speaking)
Gottfried, right? => "a mosquito", can't really be anyone else
but the ol' prick himself, Capt..