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

[Doug Millison]

It's probably not very polite to point out inconsistencies here, but isn't
"jbor" the one who's always complaining about Pynchon scholars who show an
interest in P's biography and try to link that to his fiction?  Something to
remember next time he/she wields that particular club.

"jbor" wrote:
I'm not sure that Pynchon was raised as a Catholic (Oyster Bay High?) And
Glen Cove is pretty posh, isn't it? The family certainly wasn't poor, as you
seem to imply. But the parallels with the 'Introduction' to _SL_ where
Pynchon talks about being an "unpolitical '50's student" (p. 6, and cf.
Oedipa's college daze here as well) and his own "glancing acquaintance with
the Beat movement" and jazz clubs (p.8), are unmistakeable.

Interestingly, it's in the 'Intro' also that Pynchon mentions the rise of
the "Chicago School" of literary critics as something of a watershed event
for him and his peers, and where he sets up the oppositions of "traditional
vs. Beat fiction" (p.6) and later, "this new writing" (i.e. his as well) and
"the more established modernist tradition we were being exposed to then in
college."(p.8)