SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Nov 9 15:28:03 CST 2002


on 10/11/02 5:07 AM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:

> 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)

There's no explicit indication that he "wished" anything of the sort in this
particular quote. He's just telling it like it was.

best




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