Stencil and the Beatniks

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

Not exactly on the point, but regarding this *nik* thing, remember when Pynchon 
fans were called Pynchoniks?  This was back around V. time, so it fits the 
chronology.  Though never as well known as *Beatnik,* natch, I imagine the term 
went out of fashion around the same time Beatniks faded away.

john m


>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.
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>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.
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