SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[jbor]

on 8/11/02 3:53 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> ...TRP calls himself an "unpolitical '50s student" in
> this Intro...

At the time he wrote 'The Small Rain', his first story. He then details his
burgeoning awareness of political and aesthetic trends which were going on
all around.

The full quote:

"Being an unpolitical '50's student I was unaware of this at the time - but
in hindsight I think I was working out of a dilemma that most of us then
had, in some way, to deal with." (p6)

What he's saying is that he wasn't consciously aware of the inherently
political aspect to writing, though he was still responding to this
"dilemma" as he began to write.

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