VV the WSC &c

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> Who, then, are some of his immediate literary models? Well, he announces his
> admiration for _On the Road_ in no uncertain terms I think. It's a pretty
> damn good book so he reckons. Rocked his, and everyone's, literary world in
> them there late 1950s. And I think that it is probably a fruitful place to
> start, both socio-culturally and in terms of textual analysis. Step 1, write
> about what you know, or, as Jack did, write about *who* you know: Ginsberg,
> Snyder, the Black Mtn habitues, Rexroth, Gaddis etc make up his version of
> the 'Whole Sick Crew'. (I think that for *his* WSC Pynchon is also writing
> about who and what he knew *about* -- mediated rather than direct experience
> -- but it's a similar strategy nonetheless.) 

http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/JackKerouac.html

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/nyt-review.html

OTR is a beautiful novel (another "lapsed Catholic" btw),
and P ripped it off too. But, P is onto another tip
altogether. One example,  take the suits in our current
chapters, Benny is putting on suits, Mr. Mandoza's then
Angel's. The suits become in P's V. not the bums in suits 
(the "[men] with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising
from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new
beat generation that I was slowly joining." OTR Ch.9) but
parody.