SLPAD11 - summary of sorts?

[Michael Bailey]

Is the next paragraph a summary of the preceding bits? - schematically,
we’ve had the mature writer’s attitude towards the work & the person he was
when he wrote them.

Then “The Small Rain” and with it, a criticism of insufficient seriousness
linked to attitudes towards death.

Then, via a transition involving sex, a wider panoramic panoply of social
ferment, with the largest blurb being for _The Wandering Scholars_ - its
subject matter not only applicable to those who abandon the academy, but
also to those whose life path leads them through the scholastic experience
& was never meant to stay there -

And now, this paragraph closes the interregnum betw TSR and “Lowlands” a
reasoned differentiation from the Beat movement and from “modernism”

“ Unfortunately there were no more primary choices for us to make. We were
onlookers: the parade had gone by….”

Parsing this idiosyncratically, “we” could be referring to a cohort later
to be denoted “Postmodern” - or not.

The main points are that they were separated from the Beats by being a bit
younger, but also by absorbing a mediated version of the Beat experience.

And they were separated, by an impetus toward zestier uncensored
expression, from the modernism then taught in universities.

Having perceived a dichotomy, it was reasonable to seek something outside
it which could retain the analytic capacity of modernism, while allowing
fetters to fall from around some taboos.