NP really, but maybe. But if I am right

[malignd at aol.com]

Agree.  Richard Farina hung with Dylan and married Joan Baez's sister (with whom he recorded).  Pynchon married his agent when he was what:  fifty?



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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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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. 



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