SLPAD 7 - unpolitical // 2 kinds of language

[Michael Bailey]

“ Lardass Levine’s conflict in this story is about where to put his loyalties.
Being an unpolitical ’50’s student, I was unaware of this at the time—“


I’d like to suggest a tenuous link to Oedipa, the part where she
acknowledges the influence of her education on the tendencies of her quest.
But later for that, please.


To extrapolate a little, perhaps there was more of a notion of academia as
above the fray, able to see both sides and so forth…

Which is actually pretty cool & something that still exists, or should
anyway. On any given issue at a
given moment, one might have a preference, but the most sustainable stance
is to be a “seeker of wisdom and truth.”
https://youtu.be/KzjnxWHl8gA



Then the other point, which is sort of related, is that he and others of
his cohort (he mentions Kerouac, Bellow, Roth, & somebody named Herbert
Gold (mental note: who dat?)) were learning that it was possible to mingle
“proper” type writing with vernacular writing & to do it successfully.

Kind of like enlisted & officers working together to win WWII?