Gratuitous Pleasure

[Atticus Pinecone]

Felt more like gem-tipped drills trepanning my ability to relate. 

> On Aug 29, 2017, at 8:19 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "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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