Re: jack kerouac/terrible drafts
rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:26:14 -0700
>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.