Stencil and the Beats

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Mike Brehm wrote:

> Point your browser at Literary Kicks at:
> 
> http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/LitKicks.html
> 
> I think I saw the info there.........

It was there all right.  Thanks Mike.
'Beatnik' _had_ to be a media invention, and as early as '58.
Herb Caen shortly to be followed by Time magazine no doubt.

The reflexive but largely irrelevant association of the dismissive term 
'beatnik' with Richard's observation on V.'s  critical rendering of the
Whole Sick Crew wasn't meant to imply I thought Pynchon might have been
influenced by the media's evaluation of things, as it might have sounded
like.

				P.