VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards 24fps?

[jbor]

> In the Introduction to Fraiña's BDSL Pynchon says,
> 
> Undergraduate consciousness rests in part on a set of careless
> assumptions about being immortal. The elitism and cruelty often found in
> college humor arises from this belief in one's own Exemption, not only
> from time and death, but somehow from the demands of life as well.

On-line here at Quail's 'Modern Word' site, and certainly relevant to the
depiction of the college kids, 24fps, PR3 etc in _Vineland_:

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_farina.html

Note also the way that Pynchon is again careful to emphasise the distance
between his own college days ("1950s Cool") and those of the '60s
counterculture, as he does in the _SL_ 'Intro', and of the sex and drugs and
rock and roll angle which provides the prominent motivation of the Pisk
sisters especially in _Vineland_:

    1958, to be sure, was another planet. You have to appreciate
    the extent of sexual repression on that campus at the time.
    Rock 'n' roll had been with us for a few years, but the formulation
    Dope/Sex/Rock 'n' Roll hadn't yet been made by too many of us.

Pynchon describes the Cornell student protest against the curfews in far
more sympathetic terms than he uses in _Vineland_, and his comment about
Fariña's novel that "[t]here is no sense of sanctuary here, or eternal
youth", repeats a criticism of other manifestations of youth rebellion which
he makes in the _SL_ 'Intro (p. 9).

It might be worthwhile discussing the various intros, articles, essays and
reviews Pynchon has written over the years, or perhaps even of some of the
works themselves: Fariña's novel, Marquez's, Dodge's, Orwell's etc; in the
context of what he has written about them and his own work. It might help in
trying to work out the "karmic adjustment" stuff in _Vineland_ particularly.
Speaking of Gnossos, Pynchon writes:

    He is susceptible to the thrill of vendetta or karmic adjustment,
    an impulse I suspect isn't entirely absent from why Fariña wrote
    the novel.

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