"changed by reading Malcolm X"

[Doug Millison]

"Forty years later, we learn that John Walker was changed by reading
Malcolm X. [...]  Americans are not, after all, in a romantic mood about
Islamic militants, especially not the homegrown sort."
from a Richard Rodriguez essay worth reading at:
http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1207suburbs.html


Pynchon appears to have been "changed" by reading Malcom X, too -- at least
enough to include him as a character in GR.