M & D Group Read (cont.)

[Mark Kohut]

In Slow Learner TRP hailed On the Road. "still think it is one of the great
American novels".  That still is telling, no, which has to mean even in his
full maturity--his forties--he respects it not just for its break-thru
style, right?

 Reflecting in his 1984 introduction to the Slow Learner short story
collection on the influences which helped to shape his early production,
Pynchon lauds Kerouac's On the Road (along with recorded jazz and Norman
Mailer's “The White Negro”) as an exemplar of this counter-traditional
impulse, describing it as “a book I still believe is one of the great
American novels” (SL 7). These cultural innovations were “centrifugal
lures” for the author, and the adjective is not incidental:"---Ms. Freer

"Centrifugal lure".....a rare phrase, of course.......

Here is Harold Lasswell using it earlier in the century: When the scholar
has a lecture-room the temptation is to narrow his orbit between the
library and the podium, resisting the centrifugal lure of the great beyond.
  There are other more prosaic uses in Google Books.

So, Mason & Dixon is his On the Road novel, right? How?

Discuss.
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