Re: SLPAD 6 - “the class angle”

[Mark Kohut]

I have never been in any branch of the military but I thought the military
is where class went to be leveled?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 12:40 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed. I think it’s unsurprising that the young Pynchon developed a
> perception in the military of the -  or, let me just say, a sympathy for
> the working classes.
>
> As an intelligent person growing up in the 20th century, he already had
> exposure to idiocy latent or flamboyantly evident among “adults…charged
> with heavy-duty responsibilities” but the stark class contrasts in the Navy
> would be harder to ignore.
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