A Bit of Wanking Redux

[rich]

From: "Richard Romeo" <richardromeo@[omitted]>
To: pynchon-l@[omitted]
Subject: The 60s redux...
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 09:54:13 PST

I hereby proclaim that the 3rd side of the Beatles White Album is, sub
rosa of course, a synopsis of the 60s, as Dante's Inferno was to the
Church and its history:

regarde:

1.  Birthday--the birth of rock and roll, feverish, communal, the first
blast as to what will come.

2.  Yer Blues--a period of growth, a sense of maturity, of frustration,
a willingness to concede the brillance of the void, but still not grown
enough to accept it.  alas, the eventual foundation of the revolution
and of late 20 C man.

3.  Mother Nature's Son--the period of reflection after the battles in
the streets, free love, singing songs for everyone, walking with Blake's
wife, you become naked. naivety...brenschluss

4.  Everybody's Got Something...--harbinger of moral decay, of the onset
of the freewheeling 70s, anarchic, the man of yer blues raising
demons...screeching come come on

5.  Sexy Sadie--the loss of spiritual innocence, a bitter pill of
material comfort and the confirmation that the monkey always wins.

6.  Helter Skelter--armageddon, pure naked abandon.

7.  Long, Long, Long--coda.  haunted memories, a hard-earned grace,
ragged but fully realized, a reach for more than what came before. rock
transformed.

rich
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