Reading the Value System of Gravity's Rainbow ...

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> the minnesota review n.s. 55-56 (2002)
> Morris Dickstein with Robert S. Boynton
> Between Generations: An Interview with Morris Dickstein
>
> Some of the figures who came to interest me later, like the social
> critics of the 50s—David Riesman, William Whyte—they were too tepid
> and liberal for us at the time, and too popular. What fascinated us
> were the more apocalyptic figures who came on the scene in the
> mid-50s, roughly around the time of Marcuse's Eros and Civilization,
> although I hadn't read it at the time. I was especially taken with
> Mailer's "The White Negro," and most of Advertisements for Myself.
> Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death was practically a sacred text to
> us when it came out in 1960. I seemed to be out to confirm its message
> in the papers I was writing for my English courses. I was twenty years
> old. I sought out writers who would tell me that repression was bad
> for you, sex was redemptive, a revolution in consciousness was
> possible. We were looking for daring iconoclastic role models, outlaw
> intellectuals
>
> http://www.theminnesotareview.org/ns55/dickstein.htm
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=73079

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72330
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72396
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0304&msg=78321
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0703&msg=116196
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0812&msg=131225