In a message dated 4/21/2002 7:09:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< I was so impressed with the book at the time. I was reading alot of what
is
now cult literature. The Merry Pranksters, Sondhiem, Stoppard, Duchamp,
Moon and Sixpence, etc.... I guess what most people in liberal arts
colleges (or near them) were reading in late sixties and seventies. I am
curious to find how the book hits me now. I also wonder is anyone reading
them now? >>
Leland,
I thought it was great, too, but didn't read it until well after college
(Arch school 1971-76, Histo Presto 76-77). I was too goddam dull to read any
of the dope-inspired stuff in those days. Or these days, either, for that
matter. On the other hand, I LOVED Catch-22 in High School, but also Babbitt
.
I have a nasty feeling that the current crop of collegiates are all reading
mortgage banking texts, or some shit like that, and any one of them will make
more in a year than all of the Pinheads put together in our entire lives.
But we'll be having more fun. Won't we?
Ralph
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