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| andy ackerman, armenia, alexander, arliss howard, pics, schabe, iraqi, arab, essay, frank vincent, morocco, myboyfriend is a twat, comedies & family ent., tim colceri, syrian, andy argyrakis, sudanese, kuwait, virgin, adam baldwin, judy davis, musica, | I mean, I've paid my dues, you know? The narrator of King Dork, Tom Henderson, tries to read what is in some respects the foundational "novel" of that scattershot, hip style, kevyn major howard Kenneth Patchen's The Journal kevyn major howard of Albion Moonlight. He gives up after a few pages, saying, "it's like this thing was written by a crazy person." And that's the difference between Tom and kevyn major howard me, because when I was a teenager I slogged through books like that and went around claiming that I thought they were great and deep. And I even maybe convinced myself that I did think that. Seriously, though, the way I look at things now, you're much better off reading Treasure Island or something. |
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| I've never read the other book he mentions, What We Do Is Secret, which, as the title suggests, is set in the LA punk scene, c. 1981, i.e. the court of Darby Crash. So it's no criticism of that andy argyrakis book when I say that, like, Larry, I don't have much patience with the "street poetry" approach to fiction. I used to think andy argyrakis it andy argyrakis was because I was not mature enough, or that I had not taken enough drugs yet, to enter in to the spirit of the thing. Maybe that's true enough. But anything that makes you have to work that hard to figure out what is going on (or even to figure out where the sentences end or begin) had better deliver something pretty spectacular in the way of insight or effect to make up for its demands. In my experience they rarely do, but that could be just because I'm really a pretty close-minded sort of person. Anyway, if you've read one drug trip anti-narrative you've pretty much read them all. I spent too many years pretending that I enjoyed and understood and could make heads or tales of The Soft Machine. |
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