VLVL 4: Death of the Hippie

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> it's worth speculating
> about whether their whole hippie idyll in the period
> 1973-1984, even down to
> naming their '70s and '80s-born kids "Morning" and
> "Lotus", is part of a
> charade they've been playing, of a conscious effort
> they have made to
> "erase" their "trail" and start afresh. The kids'
> names are stereotypes
> straight out of the '60s, but they're born in the
> later '70s and '80s, is
> the point there: it doesn't quite ring true. 

Only because you apparently don't know Northern
California and what it was like in the '70s. 
Pynchon's got it right, not surprisingly, since he
spent time in the area while writing Vineland, and due
to his knowledge of California and the West Coast more
generally, since the early '60s.

FYI, the use of "hippie" after '67 is anachronistic,
at least from the perspective of the early hippies
themselves.  The movement declared the "Death of the
Hippie" in 1967.

Here's a useful site you youngsters can use to brush
up on your '60s counterculture history:

<http://www.diggers.org/asp/chrono_all_events.asp>

[...] Oct 06, 1967 (Friday)	Death of Hippie Parade.
More Info 
Another in the series of Digger pageants that played
out on the streets of the Haight Ashbury and the City.
This one occurred one year to the day from that of the
Love Pageant Rally. [...] 






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