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Sat Jul-28-07 10:07 PM
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:12 PM
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1. Thanks - my favorite author |
Joe Fields
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:16 PM
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3. Mine, too. He's what got me to want to write. |
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I tried to write like him and failed miserably.
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Joe Fields
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:21 PM
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6. Hi! Fancy meeting you here... |
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Sun Jul-29-07 02:41 AM
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22. Yea him and Hunter S. ruined my writing style for about ten |
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years...
Listen to On the Road as read by David Carradine the next time you take a long trip...
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:17 PM
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4. bob -- i love your sigline |
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those are some great pix.
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Joe Fields
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:30 PM
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7. Oops...Hi! Fancy meeting you here... |
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I was meeting myself a little bit ago, but I corrected it. Like Kerouac?:bounce:
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:34 PM
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9. it is a small world, after all |
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Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 10:37 PM by wildhorses
hey jack kerouac ;) :*:hug::* edited to add a smilie:)
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Joe Fields
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:43 PM
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11. not small enough to suit me yet, but I'm workin' on it..... |
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:40 PM
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although I didn't take any of them.
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:43 PM
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12. well, it is gorgeous. absolutely breathtaking. |
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i have been thinking about changing mine as of late:shrug:
need some inspiration, i guess.
anyway yours is a pleasure to the eye.
:hi:
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:14 PM
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2. A prose poet, no doubt. n/t |
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Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 10:15 PM by janx
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Joe Fields
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:32 PM
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8. A stream of consciousness writer, with a poet's heart. |
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:44 PM
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13. Yeah, he invented a new form of writing, a hybrid of |
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prose and poetry that he called "spontaneous bop prosody."
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:47 PM
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14. "That's not writing; that's typing" Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac |
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:42 PM
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17. sounds like new york elitist writer's snobbery to me. |
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Not all new yorkers were elitists, but Capote was.
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:56 PM
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20. And he was wrong about Kerouac's habits, for that matter |
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Edited on Sat Jul-28-07 11:59 PM by Bryan
From William Burroughs' "Remembering Jack Kerouac":
"Tell me how many books a writer has written... we can assume usually ten times that amount shelved or thrown away. And I will tell you how he spends his time: Any writer spends a good deal of his time alone, writing. And that is how I remember Kerouac-as a writer talking about writers or sitting in a quiet corner with a notebook, writing in longhand. <...> You feel that he was writing all the time; that writing was the only thing he thought about. He never wanted to do anything else."
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Sun Jul-29-07 09:27 AM
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23. But according to Capote , he also was not part of an elite new york writers clique... |
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Capote caught a lot of hell for his assertion that "the New York literary scene is controlled by a Jewish Mafia" I don't agree with Capote, but he certainly did not consider himself a member of a new york elite.
I think that Capote's problem with Kerouac was that they were both essentially stylists, but Capote thought that Kerouac's style was extremely limited (by choice)
I have always enjoyed both writers, but I honestly feel that Capote's work can teach one far more about the craft of writing. All Kerouac can teach one is how to write like Jack Kerouac.
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:20 PM
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5. I thought it would be this one. |
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Sat Jul-28-07 10:48 PM
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15. Pity that he ended his days as a drunken right wing reactionary... |
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:44 PM
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18. a victim of celebrity status, which he despised. |
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:31 PM
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16. His writing is unbelievably personal to me... |
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Considering I grew up in Lowell and lived in the same French-Canadian neighborhood in Pawtucketville.
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:45 PM
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19. his writing and my life paralelled each other for quite some time. |
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Sun Jul-29-07 02:33 AM
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21. One of my favorite writers _ever_. Thank you! |
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