VL to SL: Pynchon's Self-Characterization

[MalignD at aol.com]

> <<The Beats stood for conservative American values or what we all want to 
> believe about America.>>
> 
Statements like this are idiotic.   Who, pray tell is "we all"?   And what do 
you think "we all" want to believe?   

And what, exactly, are conservative American values?    And what did the 
Beats stand for for outside the work they created?   

What rubbish.


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