Children of the revolution? (is: VLVL2 warm-up)

[Otto]

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From: "lorentzen-nicklaus" <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: re: Children of the revolution? (is: VLVL2 warm-up)
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> jbor schrieb:
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> > Just about all the 60's "college kids" of the "'new left'" depicted in
> > _Vineland_ - even as they were back then in the '60s, let alone what
> > they had all become by '84 - do seem pretty ridiculous, however.
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>     you mean "ridiculous" like a kangaroo wearing rose coloured specs?
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>       obviously you did not even scratch the novel's deeper layers.
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I wish you'd been a little bit more elaborate about this.

>          (playlist addition -- jefferson airplane: "volunteers")
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Jefferson Airplane
Volunteers (1969)
Volunteers

Look what's happening out in the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Hey I'm dancing down the streets
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Ain't it amazing all the people I meet
Got a revolution Got to revolution
One generation got old
One generation got soul
This generation got no destination to hold
Pick up the cry
Hey now it's time for you and me
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Come on now we're marching to the sea
Got a revolution Got to revolution
Who will take it from you
We will and who are we
We are volunteers of America
http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=dzilmafu

I think it's especially this naive idea of a "dancing in the
streets"-revolution that Pynchon is doing away with "Vineland" --
1984-hippie-relict Zoyd makes his living on the annual "mental-disability
check" (3), isn't that ridiculous?

>         we'll come to that later this summer ... join the group-read!
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I definitely will.

Otto

>    + KFL: reading thomas mann's pope-novel "der erwählte" -
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