VL to SL: Pynchon's Self-Characterization

[Terrance]

  "We were onlookers: the parade had gone by and we were already getting
  everything secondhand, consumers of what the media at the time were
  supplying us. This didn't prevent us from adopting Beat postures and
  props, and eventually as post-Beats coming to see deeper into what,
  after all, was a sane and decent affirmation of what we all want to
  believe about American values. 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 and electric guitars, the wisdom of the East cam back in
  fashion. It was the same, only different. 
  On the negative side, however, both forms of the movement placed too
  much emphasis on youth, including the eternal variety. 

  "It's no secret nowadays, particularly to women, that many American
  males, even those of middle-aged appearance, wearing suits and holding
  down jobs, are in fact, incredible as it sounds, still small boys
  inside."

  Slow Learner Introduction. 9 & 10 

  "It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even
  longer childhood.  Long childhood makes a technical and mental
virtuosos
  out of man, but it also leaves a lifelong residue of emotional
  immaturity in him. While tribes and nations,  in many intuitive ways,
  use child training to the end of gaining their unique version of
  integrity, they are, and remain, beset by the irrational fears which
  stem from the very state of childhood which they exploited in their
  specific way." 

  Childhood & Society

Takeshi is Fanny. 

And Ericson's exaplains why the Yurok boys are attracted to their
oppressors and reject their own fathers, father land.  In that famous
letter about the Herero .... 

The refugees find the Camps because in Pynchon's worlds it always takes
an S and an M to make S&M.