SLSL context for Pynchon's stories

[Dave Monroe]

See, e.g., ...

Melley, Timothy.  Empire of Conspiracy:
   The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2000.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54033&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58494&sort=date

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0108&msg=58600&sort=date

And David Riesman, R.I.P. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/obituaries/11RIES.html

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "[...] This was the style back then. The 50's and
> 60's were the great age of the Big Notion: the
> pseudoscientific book that explained us to ourselves
> and told us where we were headed, which in most
> cases was nowhere good. The avatar of them all, of
> course, was Freud's ''Civilization and Its
> Discontents,'' which argued, among other things,
> that we were all suffering from a kind of collective
> neurosis, and picking up the theme, in addition
> to ''The Lonely Crowd,'' were William H.
> Whyte's ''Organization Man,'' which made many of
> the same points as Riesman ....

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/magazine/29REISMAN.html

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