Slow Learner

[Mark Kohut]

this slower learner would like to know what
anyone on the Plist knows about a detailed
piece just on the Intro.

Fascinating, of course, in itself & once one has done and
redone Pynchon enough to associate associations, so
to speak even more so. Careful but so laid back. Real
I feel. Hardly a whisper of hysterical prose...'clinically insane'
to describe those politicians with major power since the war
is about it. (Yet, sounds right on as he says it straight and
one reflects on insane as out of touch with reality)

Around my third to fifth reading and....a whole mini-bio
might be there in embyro.

Does anyone know or think that his mention of
Wadell's Wandering Scholars is at least part
of what sent him into the Navy? "Given the university
environment of the time, the parallels weren't hard to see".
Next paragraph after praising On the Road as still one
of the great American novels. ( A novel which I think
he sometimes has an 'anxiety of influence' dance with in V.)
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