V.V. (14) McLintic's "bad week" at the V-Note

[Doug Millison]

The Roseland sequences would seem to target the generation prior to
Pynchon's; if you want to point to his biography, he was born in 1937 and in
all likelihood still awaiting puberty in the mid-to-late '40s.  If his
sympathies are with the Whole Sick Crew, that might be because they are his
late 1950s' contemporaries.

"jbor" wrote:
Pynchon seems to be drawing on, if not indeed renouncing, his own college
background in these sequences (cf Slothrop at the Roseland Ballroom in
_GR_). The nameless college "types" are a different set to the members of
the Whole Sick Crew, and I get the impression that Pynchon's sympathies
reside more with the latter rather than the former group.