was Re: VLVL (6) Brock

[Don Corathers]

I think they were trying to get Mr. Pynchon to rewrite his novel to portray
their political views in a more favorable light, like everybody else.

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: was Re: VLVL (6) Brock


> on 30/9/03 12:39 AM, gumbo at fuse.net at gumbo at fuse.net wrote:
>
> > Some--generally people who were outside the counterculture and
dismissive of
> > it--used the word to mean anybody who smoked dope and let their hair
grow long
> > in the sixties. I think Pynchon would employ the term more precisely
than that
>
> I'm not sure what your complaint is any more but, getting back to the
novel,
> what are the student radicals and/or hippies actually shown to be doing?
>
> best
>
>