Word: pynchon
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...biggest factor is that more parents than ever are letting their children choose their own schools. A traditional boarding school that excludes one sex is rarely the first choice. "The rural, rustic life is not attractive to young people," says David Pynchon, headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. "Today's youth is not accepting the kind of authority that the school represents." Adds Pomfret Headmaster Joseph K. Milnor Jr.: "They opt for Mom, Pop, a girl and television." Indeed, places in city and suburban private day schools are much in demand. The power of sex appeal is perhaps best...
...Thomas Pynchon, Novelist
...expansion of the novel's meaning, Wurlitzer resembles Thomas Pynchon, who also wrote a book in which the reader adopts the protagonist's emotion instead of merely sympathizing with it. In The Crying of Lot 49, the plot contains a possible conspiracy that you see as a possible conspiracy existing in your life in exactly the same sense as it exists in the novel. The intellectualized emotions contained within the book are generalized outside of it in a way that does not usually happen...
...develops that not only was there such a song on Celebrations for a Grey Day, an Eastern sounding instrumental, but that Farina and Pynchon were roommates and best friends at Cornell. Pynchon turns up not only in the blurb to Farina's novel, but also as a character in a piece in the new Farina book, an article entitled "The Monterey Fair," one of the most interesting in the book. Written for Mademosielle, strangely enough, it is the story of a trip to Monterey the day before Dick's and Mimi's wedding, at which Pynchon was best...
...only exceptions I have come across are the works of Richard Brautigan, Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone, possibly Pynchon's Crying a Lot 49, and Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. It is not Farina's occasional reference to Buddy Holly that makes him post-rock, but rather the impression one gets from the novel that it was written with the Stones constantly playing in the background. The book is driven by a constant mindless throb of energy...