IV and cultural assimilation

[Mark Kohut]

I guess my short-sighted horizon stopped at the growth of suburbia's sameness, the yuppie surge of similarity for all into the next decades...................

--- On Tue, 10/13/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: IV and cultural assimilation
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 2:57 PM
> Isn't the melting pot alive and
> well?  If anything, it's more so than back in the
> '60s.
> 
> Laura
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> 
> >****Bekah is ME and sez:
> >ME:   Another thing,  I think
> Pynchon is going to some lengths to include specific
> elements of the racial/national diversity which is LA in one
> large celebration of cultural assimilation.  
> >
> >I also think, from doc's afro thru Tariq, the Asian
> chicks and others, TRP definitely wanted to indicate a real
> mixing 'melting pot' that was lost later in America.....
> >
> >
> >      
> 
>