Gratuitous Pleasure

[ish mailian]

"The Beats created a hollow rebellion full of gratuitous pleasure w/o
political objectives"

This is Joel Dinerstein
from _The Origins of Cool in Postwar America_
A book we learned about here.
In in Chapter 11 "Lorraine Hansberry and the End of Postwar Cool"

Her attacks on Mailer, the White Negro, and on the New Negro, on the
New Paternalists and the Camus crowd,  and so on, so sharp so right
on.

P's Watts essay shows up a bit later than the debates with Mailer and
the New Paternalists.

It's as if he needed to unload that white man's burden to turn Huck's
Pap into the Jazz man in The Secret Integration, Mr. McAfee, and to
prevent Carl Barrington from becoming a real boy.

Somehow Tyrone is an Invisible Man because of this too.

Gratuitous?
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l