Not "novel of ideas" but what was blowing in the Wind

[Paul Mackin]

In late 50's, psychoanalytic responses to cold war fears. Brown and Marcuse.
Mao.  Peking Daily. Peaceful Blacks.  Cohabitation. Trips to San Francisco
to see Beats in North Beach, have an Irish Coffee at Vesuvio, look in at
corner bookstore owned poet Ferlinghetti . Folk Music. Hungry Eye or I.
Gateway Singers. Less commercial than other group. Fidel, Steve Allen.

60s. Beatles. New Left. National Guardian. Youth Movement. Youth sex.
Marches on Washington. Fidel in New York,   House on East 6th Street.
Terrible Art. Camelot. Assassination. Angry Blacks. Burning Washington.
Busing. Good movies. A million more things but I gotta go.




On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:07 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> What was blowing in the winds where and when P was composing and for the
> people, some of them the readers he was writing for and about?
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> Important.
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> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I certainly agree there's "some good stuff" here.  The historical
>> approach is mostly to my liking, probably since I lived through the period
>> and was already starting  into middle age when GR appeared.
>> Oh, yeah, the bit about the 'the most popular abandoned literary
>> fictions.'  That's true.
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>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Before, during, and after GR.
>>>
>>> The novel of ideas is too confusing to me. I find that most definitions
>>> are loaded up with negative adjectives and that it does more harm than
>>> good.
>>>
>>> I like the thread that considers how America produced a different
>>> fiction from Europe.
>>>
>>> In this review, some good stuff.
>>>
>>> https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v2.2.114/
>>>
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