Sinister: Beatniks, lemurs, the usual...

[the duke of harringay]

Rhys Williams wrote:

> > > Here's a thing. My friend Jo has just lent
> me this book by
> > > Toby Litt called
> > > 'Beatniks'
> > This sounds like a good book. Is it?
> >
>   It is, yeah, fantastic! Essential reading for
> all Kerouac fans.
> Sort of takes the piss out of the On The Road
> Myth, but in a nice
> way. Plenty of gritty and realistic shagging as
> well.

as opposed to... smooth and imaginary shagging
presumably?  anyway, realism is the
externalisation of internalised fantasy, and my
realistic is far from gritty.  anything that takes
the piss out of the keruoac myth is cool by me
though... you have to consume his literature in a
bubble of myopia, and that's of course the whole
fun of it.  a tragic story of misplaced trust and
self-hatered.  book of dreams is the best,
yessum.  also 'safe in heaven dead' is good for a
giggle.

"Once God moves the hand, and you go back and
revise, it's a sin!  My thought doesn't have to be
improved - because i got it from Heaven!"

hee hee.

keep a faith,

the duke

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