VLVL "the Movement"

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 16:38, Dave Monroe wrote:
> > Okay, thanks for the clarification.  Especially as
> > I've been at pains to forestall that all-too-easy leap
> > from "conservative" to "Conservative" here myself.
> > I've pointed out more'n' a few times here, for
> > example,  that Jules Siegel's ex-wife (whose name I
> > can't recall) referred to Pynchon as a coupon-cliiping
> > "conservative" on this very list ...
> 
> But wasn't she just trying to be cooler-than-thou?

Do we really need whoever her name wuz to figure this out? 
It's really quite strange that some here refuse to accept what Pynchon
tells us about himself. 

"I enjoyed only a glancing acquaintance with the Beat movement." SL.8

Is this only Pynchon pretending to be a character in Orwell's novel,
biting his thumb at Reagan? Jeez, is all that stuff P admits to in SL
just crap? He's just pulling our legs? He was really a Beat Movement hep
cat and Zoyd-like pot smoking old hippie? 
Oh well. But this kind of Bob Dylan is a pure artist kind of
idealization stuff is too weird for me.