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some stories:

"At other times, their drinking was less productive. They fought like cats, sometimes with knives rolled in towels. 'As soon as mutilation had been achieved...they put the knives away and went to the pub'"

"Solomon wanted to commit suicide, but he thought a form of suicide appropriate to dadaism would be to go to a mental institution and demand a lobotomy. The institution refused, giving him many forms of therapy, including electroshock therapy"


and, about Nobokov's style:
"which is to deal with life as if it were a thing created by a mad poet on a spring night.."
yeaa.


Do you think very much about our generation? I try not to - prevents me from being bored to death. But I know exactly how to be a "spokesperson for our generation' ! - that's to read the newspaper front to back in the morning, willfully forget about it, and then write what comes in the evening. nothing simpler!

reading On the Road again (the first time was cross-legged on the floor of one brooklyn public library). a guilty pleasure, something i hated to look at - i've had great joys, mostly bacchanal....fuck.
Dean Moriarty is on one side saying yes, and Bartleby is on the other saying no, both drop-outs, both mystics..


furthermore, the next step:
"Marcus''s contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak," wrote Mark Singer in The Wire. But the country mapped in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie''s land made for you and me...... It''s what Marcus calls ''the old, weird America''"-the "playground for God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all strips,"