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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