The Pynchon I Knew?
Henry M
scuffling at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 16:47:24 CST 2010
Do you think he hangs out with Senor Jules in Mexico?
AsB4,
Henry Mu
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andrew <phoenixx360 at gmail.com> wrote:
> To my very limited knowledge, it seems accurate. The commune he mentions in
> New Mexico seems to existed, but through some very half-assed googlng, I
> can't find his name mentioned as having helped found it. Pearlman also turns
> up in the google search living in Placitas, which, rightly or wrongly, often
> gets mentioned in connection with old hippies.
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Here's the whole article, without the brickwall:
>>
>> . . . His diet consisted primarily of pot, coffee and Kools . . .
>>
>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n24/bill-pearlman/short-cuts
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Henry M wrote:
>>
>>> Anderson Valley Advertiser
>>> http://theava.com/archives/3108
>>>
>>> The Pynchon I Knew.
>>> by Bill Pearlman on Jan 7th, 2010.
>>>
>>> Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles County is part of the so-called South
>>> Bay, south of Santa Monica. It was mostly populated by middle-class
>>> white people when I grew up there in the 1950s, and was a good place
>>> in many ways. I played volleyball on the beach, and once a year we had
>>> surfing, paddleboard and volleyball championships next to the
>>> Manhattan Pier. I graduated from the local high school, Mira Costa, in
>>> 1961.
>>>
>>> In the first months of the summer of 1970, I was on the Oregon Coast
>>> with some friends. We rented a house and dug a garden, fished for
>>> trout and crabbed at the nearby dock in Waldport. My friend Charlie
>>> Vermont, a poet, introduced me to David Shetzline and his wife, M.F.
>>> Beal, both writers, who lived up the road from us in a place called
>>> Beavercreek. We got into some swinging scenes, did some major acid,
>>> talked about the world.
>>>
>>> Is this guy genuine?
>>> Henry Mu
>>
>
>
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