Manson Cult; was Golden Fang

[alice wellintown]

Just re-read Fast Learner,  Texas Studies in Literature and Language
49.1 (2007) 1-20
The Typescript of Pynchon's V. at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin
Luc Herman  John M. Krafft.

Just to confirm that my readings are as dumb and as brazen as you all
claim; note that I was the only reader here who read Sphere as a
negative character, treated with ironic and satiric langauge,
subjected to harsh critique. And, this reading was advanced long
before the letters were available. Moreover, the claims of  "Protest"
novel are underminded by Pynchon's correspondances.

Contrast Native Son with IV.

Pynchon didn't want some James Baldwin up his ass.