Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:53:48 -0700 (PDT)
Try Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail, or, better yet, do some work &
read his articles, early rolling stone, etc.
Thor
>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
>Check out "Up Against the Wall" for links to numerous
>literature and writing resources on the internet.
>http://members.aol.com/antiutopia/main.htm
>
>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.
> >>http://members.aol.com/antiutopia/main.htm
> >>
> >>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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