dogatories

[Terrance]

Confronted, on every corner of his own Long Island Gold Coast
neighborhood,  with the devouring, self-pleasuring, masturbatory,
decadent and hypocritical materialism that the stupendous and ruthless
success of capitalism fostered and enabled, the young disinherited but
brilliant, sensitive and shy catholic lad, Tom Pynchon,  sat  reading
Fitzgerald,  and a nostalgic yearning for some sort of ideal, some
possibility, something more, something else, something necessary,
something traditional and conservative that refuses to concede any
absolute dominion to the merely accidental triumphs of the day, was
born. Tom Pynchon is a traditional American author and he writes about
The American Dream. The American Dream, Tony Tanner says, is a function
of deprivation.