Not P but paranoia

[Monte Davis]

Ah, the confident clinical detachment of 1964, when a liberal academic
firmly planted on New Deal and Great Society could see Birchers and White
Citizens' Councils and the Goldwater movement as a passing fever, rather
than the beginnings of a long march. I can tell my sons that the mainstream
Republican rhetoric of today would have been "lunatic fringe" fifty years
ago, and I can see they don't quite believe it because hey, progress, right?

ALL of P's California books remind us that San Narciso and Vineland and
Gordita Beach are just down the road from Orange County.


On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I actually believe, based on nothing substantial, that this piece and
> the subsequent
> book did influence the young Thomas. Crying of Lot 49 mostly, what
> with the John Birch
> allusions and so much conspiracy drumming.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Fatso Judson <blicerosboy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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