VLVL (6) Brock

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL (6) Brock


> on 28/9/03 2:56 PM, Don Corathers at gumbo at fuse.net wrote:
>
> > Wait, wait, stop. "Hippiedom" = "a failure of public will" that was
> > responsible for the Vietnam War?
>
> Not for causing it, of course, but do see Quail's site:
>
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays.html
>
> the "hippie resurgence" is overtly critiqued in both the _SL_ Intro
> and in _Vineland_.


The positive side:

"When the hippie resurgence came along ten years later, there was, for a
while anyway, a sense of nostalgia and vindication. Beat prophets were
resurrected, people started playing alto sax riffs on electric guitars, the
wisdom of the East cam eback into fashion. It was the same, only different."

Resurgence, vindication -- hardly critical words.

The negative:

"On the negative side, however, both forms of the movement (i.e Beats and
Hippies) placed too much emphasis on youth, including the eternal variety."

(SL-Intro, p. 9)