V.V. (6) Pynchon's research

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Dave Monroe wrote:

 given Pynchon's obvious passage  through the era of High
Beatnikism (e.g., the nfluence of Jack Kerouac's > On the
Road on TRP's The Crying of Lot 49), which inherited,
valorized,  further romanticised, and widely transmitted
such figures, well ...

But what use does P make of Jack Kerouac? Parody? 

Why are the artsy types, for example,  no longer sucking the
blood of America in P, but rather sick in a whole new way. 

AN what is P's view of the intellectual, the "real
intellectual"? 

Compare V. with Farina's book Been Down So Long, what about
it?  

I know exactly what you mean and in fact all those problems
have occurred to me, but the thing that I want I s the
realization of those factors that should one depend on
Schopenhauer's dichotomy for any inwardly realized
" and so
on in that way, things I understood not a bit and he himself
didn't. In those days he really didn't know what he was
talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all
hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real
intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the
words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from "real
intellectuals" ---although, mind you, he wasn't so naïve as
that in all other things, and it took him just a few months
with Carlo Marx to become completely in there with all the
terms and jargon. Nonetheless we understood each other  on
other levels of madness
I would be strange and ragged and
like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the
dark Word, and the only Word I had was.