Speculation: Pynchon/Kerouac

[Cal McInvale]

Finishing up a small Kerouac bibliography for the Literary Kicks web page
today (and beginning work on a Pynchon bibliography), I began wondering:

We know that Kerouac was a literary influence on TP (mentioned in the intro
to Slow Learned, I believe), so we know that TP had some amount of respect
for at least one of the Beats.  I began to formulate some questions:

1.  How does Pynchon's writing relate to the Beats and where would TP fit
in vis-a-vis "the Beat Generation?"  (An easy one, with much evidence for
extrapolation.)

2.  What have the Beats said about Pynchon? (One for the researchers among us.)

3.  What would Kerouac have thought of Pynchon?  (One for speculation.)

The topic is open for discussion.  (I don't have any ideas yet; just the
questions.)


Shalom...

Cal McInvale     godot at rt66.com
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