Rock & Roll and Language (was: 70s crap)

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

> Vaska wrote: [snip] "I love the American temperament, its vigour and its
> sheer aliveness, . . . but the underside of that vitality is this
> quickness to draw the gun, to reach for the extreme, to trample over the
> differences. 

These days it seems that that "underside" is in the ascendancy and that
that "aliveness" you mention is swiftly transforming into a certain form
of inanimateness as pushed in our mass media and mass marketing. 

> At its best, the conversations we have on this list teach me so much about
> so much else beside Thomas Pynchon.  At such times, it's a great pleasure to
> be here.

Agreed wholeheartedly.  Steve Maas