Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:42:29 -0400
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From: Prufrock33@aol.com <Prufrock33@aol.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Sunday, July 19, 1998 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: I am Franny!!! / We love Bill
>In a message dated 7/19/1998 7:17:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>wishy@nettaxi.com writes:
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> >Oh well. Never really liked Bukowski anyway (:
>
> Isn't it Hunter S Thompson? Or am I being really dim here? >>
>
>Yes, it is Hunter S. Thompson who wrote _Fear and Loathing_. Was Camille
>saying that Bukowski wrote _Fear and Loathing_ ?
No. She was just firing a shot at me in reference to my post several weeks
ago in which I mentioned my appreciation of Charles Bukowski. I honestly
can't understand how a young, aspiring writer such as Camille doesn't have
at least a bit of respect for the late, great Henry Charles Bukowski.
"Each new line is a beginning and has nothing to do with any lines which
preceded it. We all start new each time. And, of course, it isn't all that
holy either. The world can live much easier without writing than without
plumbing. And some places in the world have very little of either. Of
course, I'd rather live without plumbing but I'm sick."