Stencil and the Beats

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Wed Jul 10 09:37:02 CDT 1996


Anyone know at what point in time the Beats started being somewhat
derisively called Beatniks? Was it fairly soon after Sputnik? 1957?

Hey, how's that for a Pynchon tie-in?

				P.

On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:

> One of the awesome things about V. in the first few chapters is  
> Stencil's view of the Whole Sick Crew.  Such a distant detached view of 
> the Beats and their world (penned in the early 60's no less!).  You would 
> expect satire/maybe some horror as well?  of the hipsters right about 
> now- in our "post-ironic" age (acc. to Donald Fagen)- not as it was 
> happening.  Showed Pynchon was far ahead of his time...and only 23 fer 
> Christ's or should I say for V.'s sake...
> 
> 
> 
> Great name for a rock band I say....  





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