VLVL "the Movement"

Dave Monroe monrobotics at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 11 13:29:10 CDT 2004


   "Sometimes at college we also succeeded in getting
on the same literary wavelength. We showed up once at
a party, not a masquerade party, in disguise--he as
Hemingway, I as Scott Fitzgerald, each of us aware
that the other had been through a phase of enthusiasm
for his respective author. I suppose by then I was
learning from Farina how to be amused at some of my
obsessions...."

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/farina.html

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_farina.html

Okay ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Dissident Left? Why? I can't imagine why anyone
> would apply this term to Pynchon.

And I've some difficulty why anyone would read Pynchon
as politically conservative.  Let me know ...  

> It simply doesn't make any sense.

And why would that be again?  Again, let me know ...

> In fact, one could argue to compare the American
> Pynchon with the American Fitzgerald....

At any rate, see above ... 

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