Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts
Jim Rovira (jrovira@juno.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:23:38 -0400
Ok, I can see that about Wolfe in EKAAT. But he does seem to make his
point pretty strongly about Kesey and Co. at the end, where his band is
on stage, they're all just playing to each other, and everyone watching
just doesn't get it.
I just don't see that in FALILV. Hep me pleeeze :)
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:26:14 -0700 "rev. bob pigeon"
<sid-vicious@mindspring.com> writes:
>>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 think falilv is a lot deeper than just a drug book with drug
>humor...
>
>>I prefer Tom Wolfe to Thompson any day. At least he's trying to say
>>something.
>
>the only tom wolfe i read was the acid test and i didn't like it.
>first
>off, he seems to distance himself...instead of becoming part of
>kesey's gang
>he seems to just be standing off on the side and writing down
>everything he
>sees, still dressed in a business suit and wearing expensive shoes.
>but hst
>jumped into his stories, and he writes about what he's living and not
>what
>he's seeing. if edward r murrow was reporting from a desk in new
>jersey
>based on photographs he was looking at he wouldn't have had the same
>sort of
>impact.
>
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