Woodstock, again

[Robin Landseadel]

>> Mark Kohut: I  mean, wasn't Woodstock the 'anarchist dance miracle'  
>> forseen in The Crying of Lot 49?
>>
>> Robin : I'd say it was the Watts Acid Test of February 12, 1966 at
>> the Youth Opportunities Center, Compton, CA.

On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Coudda been both, no excluded middle, yes?

Acid tests had been going on in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles before  
Pynchon published the Crying of Lot 49. I'd say that the anarchist  
miracle was something "seen", not "foreseen."

In my admittedly cynical hindsight,  Woodstock appears more like a  
great marketing opportunity successfully exploited than a grassroots  
movement that riled "The Man."