Re: The Naked Lunch

Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Tue, 01 Jul 1997 21:15:34 -0700 

At 01:18 AM 7/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi:)
>        I feel slightly bad for always dropping a comment or a question,
>which is seldom related to Salinger, and never taking part in any of you
>guys' literary discussions. Maybe that is because I know i'm intellectually
>below most of you and just don't want to sound stupid, but, anyway, I am
>doing this again. 
>
>        My current problem is:
>        I have just finished watching "The Naked Lunch", the movie, by David
>Cronemberg, and that obviously brought up an immense curiosity on William
>Burroughs and his work. I would LOVE to know more about him. Incidentally, I
>just bumped into a copy of Jack Kerouak's "On the Road" today and managed to
>buy it for 50 cents (great deal). So now that I am finally getting into
>beatnik literature, I just thought I could use some advice from my friendly
>Bananafish pals:)
>        Thanks again,
>Nanda__________________Nanda
>           Nanda    
>
>

Nope, nope, read Bukowski ;) he rocks ;) 

Burroughs is awsome though. Im reading "With William Burroughs -
COnverstaions from the Bunker" and its absolutely great :) haven't seen the
movie though, but plan to :)

If your into more beat-ish stuff, try the Beat-L list which covers this
area more exclusively. To find out how to get more information on it, go
to: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/beat-list.html and subsrcibe.

And if your into Buk (wink wink), go to:
http://www.bigendian.com/~simunye/buk.htm on getting on the Bukowski
listserv ;)

Anyways, a defintion of a "beat" is odd, because those who "fit" in the
catagory (and I could logically say that salinger *could*) will not go by
any definition of those who say they don't. Its all subjective. Buk hated
the beats, but wrote in such an era that could be described "beat".
Confused yet? :)

ttfn.

lisa
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