Watts essay

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 18:52, pynchonoid wrote:
> jbor, if you want to believe that the Watts essay,
> with its one-time publication, has reached more
> readers than Pynchon's novels and stories in their
> various editions and translations, his publications in
> mass circulated magazines like Saturday Evening Post,
> etc., don't you let anybody convince you of anything
> different. After all, facts don't really mean anything.


I always think of the NY Times Magazine articles mostly as filler
between fashion ads and if the Times felt something important needed to
be reported on they would put in the main section of the paper. Perhaps
I'm misinformed however.

But the important point is, I don't think Pynchon's writing could
possibly have been terribly important in the civil rights movement.

Stokely got the attention.