Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts

Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:29:42 -0400 

Alright, alright, then gimme another title to read or something :)  Or
maybe point out some things in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that
perhaps I missed. ...

Jim Rovira
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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:49:37 -0400 (EDT) kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca (Paul
Kennedy) writes:
>Well, Jim, we might have to agree to differ on this one....
>
>In my opinion Hunter S. Thompson is a bit like Ralph Waldo Emerson on
>amphetemines....  (not that I'd ever admit to trying amphetemines--in 
>fact I
>HAVE NOT!--although I've read my share of RWE....)  (...in fact, I'm 
>not
>ever sure that I know how to SPELL ampthetemines....) (?)
>
>The Frederick Jackson Turner wildness of the American frontier is 
>grafted
>onto the moralistic transcendentalism of the Concord enlightenment.... 
> 
>
>It all seems so 'Meruhcan to this Canuck....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
>>Gawd I wish I could share anyone's enthusiasm for Hunter S. Thompson. 
> I
>>admit I've only read...eh...the Las Vegas thing.  What was it?  Fear 
>and
>>Loathing in Las Vegas.  There you go.  
>>
>>When I was in High School, I would have thought it was really cool.  
>Now
>>it just seems like lowbrow drug humor.  Right up there with Up in 
>Smoke. 
>>Good for some yuks, but, really...favorable comparisons to Hemingway? 
>:)
>>
>>I prefer Tom Wolfe to Thompson any day.  At least he's trying to say
>>something.
>>
>>Jim Rovira
>>Check out "Up Against the Wall" for links to numerous
>>literature and writing resources on the internet.
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>>
>>On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:20:12 -0400 (EDT) kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca 
>(Paul
>>Kennedy) writes:
>>>After having disgraced myself in the world's eyes (and, perhaps even 
>
>>>more
>>>importantly, in Scottie's eyes....) last week, by exhibiting nearly 
>>>suicidal
>>>tendencies towards alcoholism, only moments after mentioning my
>>>self-confessed love of apparently low-brow literature like Armistead 
>
>>>Maupin,
>>>I'm now about to combine my two fatal flaws by jumping onto the 
>Hunter 
>>>S.
>>>Thompson bandwagon.... I mean, if a guy is going to fall off the 
>>>wagon, what
>>>better wagon to fall off than the one Hunter has been falling off 
>for 
>>>years!
>>>
>>>Hunter is the only journalist since 1960 that I'd instantly induct 
>>>into the
>>>Felt Fedora Hall of Fame for Hack/Seers....  (Previous inductees 
>>>include S.
>>>J. Perlman, H. L. Mencken, James Thurber and E. B. White.) (Jimmy 
>>>Breslin's
>>>case is currently up for consideration....)
>>>
>>>But what's this?:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>when you finish reading something like "ask the dust" it really 
>gets 
>>>to you
>>>>and can almost change your life, and when you finish "the sun also 
>>>rises"
>>>>it's just like "oh, ok...."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>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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