VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards the college kids?

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: VLVL What is Pynchon's attitude towards the college kids?
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> The comedy of errors which culminates in the student "revolt" -- the
> "fateful joint", the presence of "surfer undesirables" bringing "stems and
> seed" onto campus, the eventual advent of some "'extremely potent'
> Vietnamese buds" which were probably "brought in by somebody's brother in
> the service", and how some of the students began to freak out while others
> called the police as a result (205-6) -- exemplifies (as it does in _GR_)
> the bidirectionality of that daisy chain linking oppressor and oppressed.
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> best
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>

"Hippies create Police
Police creates Hippies"

Baba Ram Dass