Watts article

[Ghetta Life]

>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> > with which the rest of the group expresses agreement, so Pynchon 
>incorporates the quote verbatim and attributes it as the sentiment of the 
>whole group.
> > That seems to me a more straightforward way to read Pynchon's use of 
>direct quotation, consensus attributions, and black slang in the article 
>rather than asserting, over and over again and without evidence, that he 
>made it all up.
>
>In other words it's fiction based on his trip to Watts.

Right.  One can't quote a group, but one can characterize the sentiments of 
a group.  That group sentiment is what Pynchon has called "The Mind of 
Watts, a fictional entity of his making.  Whether that "mind" has anything 
to say worthy of our attention is up to us to decide.  This is also the case 
with his "black reality" versus "white fantasy" construct.

Ghetta

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