Centrifugal AND centripetal

[Dave Monroe]

"The hippies tried to steer it in the right direction
but they were too irresponsible and they tried to
change the institutions too fast for the middle and
lower classes. There was a big backlash. They were
frightened and jealous. That's what Thomas Pynchon's
books are about --the backlash and the resentment
about food stamps on both sides; food stamps put
labels on  people, they were shame-based-- and the
loss of sentimentality among families and lovers. It's
as if the culture had a surgeon come in and cut out
the part of the heart that was the source of feelings
of sentimentality. People had to give up cherishing
each other in order to protect themselves against a
new virulent strain of killer bee humans, the young
barbarians, the preppies, the white male preppies on
Wall Street and their merger and acquisition jobs...."

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9610&msg=7135&sort=date

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Well pretend I'm Eric Burns and I don't have
> Terrance's photographic memory and glass onion and
> CLUE me in. Wouldja pleez? 

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