Pynchon's bohemian existence

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pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> ... OK, late 1950s, young writer living in Greenwich
> Village, listening to jazz, mingling with folk
> singers, reading the Beats and letting them inspire
> his writing -- nothing beatnik about that, of course
> not.  Dropping out and moving to Mexico? Nothing there
> either, ever the straight-laced Ivy Leaguer,
> obviously, loyally following the family's Wall Street
> tradition, conservative Catholic all the way, clearly,
> Pynchon and Pat Buchanan, two P's in a pod...

Thomas R. Pynchon was
(a)a Buchanan Conservative 
(b)a Beatnik?
(c)a Catholic
(d)a Greenwich Village lady killer with a 10 inch club