SLSL Intro, Class/Race- "8 Mile"

[pynchonoid]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>-- that undercuts the myth of
> the American dream.  That's why Pynchon's
> class-based
> analysis in the SL Intro is significant, imo. <<<
> 
> And we enjoy the luxury of having the myth undercut
> by the intro to a short
> story collection as opposed to waking up in a
> cardboard box.
> 


Some of us do, that's right.  And enjoying that luxury
it doesn't stop some of us, Pynchon included, from
pointing to the class realities that help some and 
hinder others. Nor does it stop some of the lucky ones
from doing what they can to the people who aren't so
fortunate.



-Doug



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