Kerouac/Pynchon/Beats

[Chris V. Blanc]

> howdy,
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> 	i found some predominant influences of another great writer on
> the fringe of the beats, WSBurroughs, shot throughout gravity's
> rainbow.  the references to coldness, death, need, and the attempt to
> unify a nonlinear novel through metaphorical paranoia are all
> abstracted from WSB's 1959 novel NAKED LUNCH (title by Kerouac).
> 	WSB, however, borrowed a good deal of his technique from
> Jamesjoyce, especially chpt 15 of Ulysses.
> 
> > I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity,
> > the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently
> > poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal
> > blemish of mankind.  -- Friedrich Nietzsche
> 
> 	this...is beautiful.
> 
> - sven