Re: Ken Kesey Has Died


Subject: Re: Ken Kesey Has Died
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 08:59:53 GMT


For those who'd like to learn about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters,
you may want to read _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_ by Tom Wolfe. I
wonder what die hard Kesey fans think of that...? ;)

Jim

PAUL KENNEDY wrote:
>
> No man is an island....
> Do not go gently....
> My poor fool is dead....
>
> "Sometimes a Great Notion" is a wonderful book. "One Flew Over the
> Cukoo's Nest" is a fine film. The Merry Pranksters were once as
> important as Diggers, or Ranters, or Levellers, or Luddites.
>
> When the world moves on to Crusades for Civilization (itself), we often
> tend to forget the crazy creative folks who tried to make our loathsome
> lives more liveable.
>
> Only yesterday, I was reading an obituary for Lehmann-Haupt (?) who
> joined Mr. Kesey on his psychedelic (?--it actually SCARES me that I'm
> no longer sure I know how to spell that word) schoolbus, back when "fun"
> was still conceiveable. . I was thinking as I read that he died too
> young.... He did. So did Ken Kesey.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PK
>
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