V-2nd: The Whole Sick Crew

[Mark Kohut]

Molly Hite, a good early interpreter of TRP and a contemporary (or almost) 
said she knew these kinds of bohemians when she was young. 
 
Most interesting since she is a woman.
 
Is it the narrator's semi-omniscient judgment and the comedy wrap that
stylizes it over a simpler realism? 
 




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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: kelber at mindspring.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 8:35:43 AM
Subject: RE: V-2nd: The Whole Sick Crew


So Tom did not really hear Monk play live?

Having read "Lineland", I always thought so ...

KFL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY

>
> The W.S.C. seems derived from a pop-culture mediated idea about "beatniks"
> rather than a personal familiarity with either the Beats or
> even Village coffee-house culture.
>