two notes

[Chris Stolz]

Two things i recently noticed-- are there any comments.


1)  Pynchon's writing has one enormous pop-cultural hole in it:
I vcan find no references to professional sports.  This may make
him unique among American writers.


2)  1984 was the year that the Vineland Behavioral Adaptation
test appeared, this being a psych profile that determines to what
extent people with certain types of "problems" (antisocial
behaviors, histories of violence or abuse, low IQ, etc.) can
adapt to non-institutional life (among other things).


chris


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