Watts article

[Ghetta Life]

>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>
>Otoh, the suggestion that there's nothing in the article to suggest that 
>Pynchon even went to Watts is just plain stoopid.

I agree that he implies that he's been to Watts by way of describing 
conversations he's had there, but he is a bit cavalier about describing 
these conversations, as MalignD points out.  Sometimes he "quotes" what seem 
to be composite "common-Watt's-man" sentiments.  Other times  he says some 
"kid" or "cat" or "people."  He's free to do so, but sometimes his 
descriptions of conversations seem self-serving to his article's ends.  And 
I really have a hard time believing anyone told him that Jazz/Riot analogy.

It would have been nice if he'd said "I went to Watts "X" number of days (or 
nights) and talked to subjects "A, B, & C" at such and such a place and this 
is what I found..."

Ghetta

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