Watts article

[jbor]

> That you believe Pynchon's saying that one would hear
> the same in Harlem or Newark

No, that isn't what I wrote. It's easy for a white New Yorker reading the
article to distance himself from the specific situation in Watts. But, as
you've already noted, there are also generalities in Pynchon's text -- none
more prominent than the use of the second person pronoun to draw the reader
in -- which could be as easily applied to any black urban ghetto.

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