MDMD[6]: Fatherhood & The Absent Author

[SHUBHA GHOSH]

I use "come of age" in terms of spiritual or epistemic age rather than
chronological.   Judging from the Intro to Slow Learner,  P. didn't feel
he had really come into hiw own until after V when he started going on the
road (metaphorically as well as literally perhaps) although cl49 seemed to
indicate to him that he had forgot everything he had learned.

On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Doug Millison wrote:

> Pynchon just turned 60, didn't he?.  That means he "came of age" (however
> you want to define that, went through adolescence, came of legal age,
> turned 21, etc.) in the 1950s.
> 
> Cordially,
> Doug
> 
> At 11:30 AM 6/13/97, SHUBHA GHOSH wrote:
> >Pynchon is probably like a lot of people I know who came of age in the
> >Sixties
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>      Today in history (13 June 97 wire service report):
> 1633: The charter for Maryland was given to Lord Cecil Baltimore.
> 1944: Nazi Germany began flying-bomb attacks on Britain.
>      From today's wire service reports:
>      --Star Trek fans are like drug addicts who suffer withdrawal symptoms
> if deprived of their favorite television show, a British study has shown.
> One woman "Trekkie" spent her whole holiday worrying that her video
> recorder had not been set properly at home to catch the latest installment.
> Another spent $10,000 on Star Trek merchandise every year. After studying
> fans of the science fiction cult show for four years, psychologist Sandy
> Wolfson said, "My research found that about five to 10 percent of fans met
> the psychological criteria of addiction."
>      --Believing the modern world is spinning dangerously out of balance,
> native Indian leaders from around the Western Hemisphere are preparing to
> break 500 years of virtual silence in a bid to rescue Mother Earth. A
> rainbow confederation of more than 400 elders and shamen will hold council
> in a traditional ceremonial long-house or "maloca" in a remote village deep
> in the Colombian Amazon region for 10 days starting June 19. "Life is out
> of balance because man became disconnected from the basic essence of the
> cosmos," event organizer Francisco Quiroga said.
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