Watts article

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

Pynchon:
    But Watts kids, like most, do not like being put in with winos,
    or dangerous drivers or thieves, or in any bag considered criminal
    or evil. 

Mailer:
> "Hated from outside and therefore hating himself, the Negro was forced
> into the position of exploring all those moral wildernesses of civilized
> life which the Square automatically condemns as delinquent or evil or
> immature or morbid or self-destructive or corrupt."

Mailer's psychobabble continually edges perilously close to blame-the-victim
territory; it's far removed from what Pynchon is saying imo.

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