neither paranoid nor dispossessed

[wood jim]

--- calbert at hslboxmaster.com wrote:
> 
> 
> I would be more enthusiastic in my agreement with
> the above, had I 
> not spent a little time thinking about how such may
> manifest itself 
> anywhere else. Consider:
> 
> i) Pynchon is a middle class type at Cornell...one
> need not be a 
> flaming leveller to see that such a role involves
> certain social 
> dynamics, including a sense of "foreignness" (been
> there, done 
> that)

A middle class LI boy was not a "foreigner" at Cornell
when attended there. 


> i) re-reading V, I  was struck by the little hints
> of class "envy" 
> which seem to creep up in his description of the LI
> neighbourhood 
> of his youth....

I think you have it reveresed. He describes 5 Towns,
not his neighborhood. The envy goes the other way
round. 



> 
> ii) I think it may be a very relevant "referent" for
> the "decline of the 
> SLothrops" section in GR....
> 
> But I abhor a strict adherence to such "analysis", I
> was more taken 
> by the "context' as a source in his work.....
> 
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 


I wonder why the hell P wasn't told not to go into the
Navy with buck teeth. 
> > 
> >       P.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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