Re: SLPAD 6 - “the class angle”

[Mark Kohut]

So I went and reread the intro to *Slow Learner* to remember all TRP tried
to indicate by 'the class angle".
Yeah, he saw in the Navy what Mailer saw in the WW2 army and put into The
Naked and The Dead', an
officer--enlisted class structure with Stormin' Norman getting nuanced
about levels of power and orders-taking.

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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