Misc. on Counterforce and "limits of that world"

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 8 20:51:47 CDT 2010


>From Slow Learner: TRP sez that from beat writing, he began "to get a sense of 
that other world humming along out there".

Also, just picked up a copy of The Greening of America from that time between 
L49 and GR, the time around
IV's time, never read then, nor yet, but in which I believe the word 
'counterculture' was coined...

Either relate to The Counterforce, ya think?


My copy of V. opened to the Benny on the subway scene in which, describing the 
NY white collar workers who
ride it, he sez, "all manner of affluent have filled the 'limits of that world' 
and I remembered Rachel feeling unable to 
actually Go beyond the limits of her world, she thought and then this line from 
Wittgenstein crossed my mind:

The limits of our language is the limit of our world and although early Witt had 
ad deeper metaphysical meaning
to it, an artist like TRP, who we know read hisself some Witt might be using it 
with creative analogousness, ?, 
just to talk about the limited worlds/experience of folks in the dominant 
cultural stream....... 

To whom the underculture is not visible....?



      



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