Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:54:19 -0400 (EDT)
Jake:
I'm jealous!
(I'm also pissed that Hunter exhibits such bad taste in whisky.... Hell, I
wouldn't even rank Chivas AS a whisky..... But there you go....)
I got a great Hunter story from Ian Ballantine (who first co-founded Penguin
paperbacks in England, and then founded Bantam, and then ultimately
Ballantine Books in New York....) He quite literally pulled a book from Mr.
Thompson.... I've got a copy, but it doesn't boast an autograph....
Should I seek out Fante?
Cheers, (....OK, I'll have a Glenmorangie.... It's very late in the day for
me.... I started this morning at 4:00 am!)
Paul
>"Ask the Dust" is John Fante. (Not HST) And if that can of worms opens up I
>will take the foot of silence from my mouth and sing like mad. My circle of
>friends got hipped to Fante from Bukowski. He went on and on about him at a
>reading and afterwards I read all I could. (Hence the old odd mis-post of my
>poetry that I meant to send to BANdini instead of BANanafish.)
>
>And speaking of Hunter, Paul, I know it to be a fact that his drink of
>choice is Chivas Regal. His son Jaun is a friend. And with that in mind I
>was able to secure an Uncle Duke Doonesbury action figure signed by Hunter.
>(Very nice, indeed.)
>
>-Jake
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>>Papa's taken enough poop around here of late. So I'll ignore the second
>>part of the above passage..... But what, pray tell, is "Ask the Dust"? (I
>>can't pretend to have sought out--let alone read--everything that HST ever
>>wrote.... although my Ralph Steadman autograph in STILL LIFE WITH BOTTLE
>>ranks right up there beside Joe Carter's on an American League baseball in
>>my personal reliquary of important objects....)
>>
>>I'd be willing to bet that Hunter is a Holden fan.... and that there's a
>>red-and-yellow copy of CATCHER, stashed not far from the dope, out there in
>>his Colorado homestead....
>>
>>Where can I find "Ask the Dust"?
>>
>>Please!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>PS: Hunter, I'm almost certain, drinks Bourbon.... But I'll pass, just
>>now, and solicit Scottie's praise for my admirable abstinence....
>>
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