NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

[Matthew Cissell]

We often admire our friends. Of course Fariña was good looking and ready to eat the world (check out those videos of he and Mimi on the Pete Seeger show) so maybe young TP envied his friend in that sense, but to extend that to say that he robbed Fariña... Nah, da'don fly.
Alice is right that RF simply didn't get the chance.
Perhaps it would be better to say that they sipped from the same cup, but Fariña was only able to dip his beak & TP jumped in like a fly for a swim.
Plus, check out what Cowart says about TP's test scores for the Navy (he out performed a Princeton PHD in reading and math), they kid was very good material. TP didn't need to rob his friend; I suspect he would take exception to that idea.

mc


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From: "bandwraith at aol.com" <bandwraith at aol.com>
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Oh come on. Pynchon looked up to Farina, not just in a literary sense. I think he envied him a bit, sexually.



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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, May 9, 2013 5:58 am
Subject: Re: NP really, but maybe. But if I am right


It's not possible to believe that P robbed Farina of style. Farina never had the chance to develop, let alone develop a style. That P and F worked on and with a lot of the same material, as countless others who were scribbling campus novels and trying to find a new beat voice even as they tied in the tendrils of tradition they hardly new or understood, even as they yearned to get out as wondering scholars, out on the road, west young man, to the sea, where the might listen to what Whitman sang about, where, like Oedipa, the might see America, the one that ee Cummings wrote about, the one that  WAC Williams, in Paterson, the one that Howl describes. Farina did not live long enough to have a style. Sad, but true.