SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

barbara100 at jps.net barbara100 at jps.net
Sat Nov 9 12:07:17 CST 2002


> Your quibbles are pretty silly, all in all.

That's not very nice, Jbor.  We can stop if it's too much for you.

I think I made my point anyway.  All in all, Pynchon wished the movement(s)
had had greater success:

> > The success of the "new left" later in the '60s was to be limited by the
> > failure of college kids and blue-collar workers to get together
> > politically.  One reason was the presence of real, invisible class force
fields in the
> > way of communication between the two groups."  (SLSL, 6 -7)

Later,

Barbara

PS:
> Yes. The "hippie resurgence" and the Beat movement itself. And P. sez the
> "hippie resurgence" only resembled the Beat movement "for a while" (p.9).

No, he sez they only felt the "nostalgia and vindication" for a while.
(p.9)





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