Pynchon's bohemian existence

[Paul Mackin]

> 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
> (e)a hepcat corporate tech writer and office party bongoist
> 


minor point but should we be using the work "beatnik?"

It was a derisive term--short for "fatuous beatnik" or "no-good beatnik"

The beats didn't call themselves "beatniks."

Well, perhaps some did retrospectively. 	

Sputnik from which beatnik derived wasn't until almost 1960.