Pynchon's bohemian existence

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

How about "Highbrow Hipster"?

kfl 



Paul Mackin schrieb:
 
> > 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.
> 
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