To be honest, I dislike the Beat writers. I didn't find "On the Road" a manifesto intended to change my life, I cringed at "Naked Lunch" and I never understood William Carlos Williams, who many of the Beat writers were students of or studied with. So color me confused about this whole movement. I do think, however, that I read a lot of this literature when I couldn't relate and so it has never been an important part of my own literary and emotional development. That bird has flown and it dropped its lunch contents on someone's head, most likely.
(You know, in one ear... in this case, in one beak...)But dude. I am couch-surfing (awesome sport) in San Francisco and I decided to visit City Lights Bookstore (where, according to wikipedia, the Beat writers made their headquarters in SF) and was wowed. The place is amazing, and it has everything you would ever want to be a socially conscious person. Seriously. I even saw a graphic novel about anarchist Emma Goldman. I know. Who wouldn't want a graphic novel about her?
currently listening to:
Land Locked Blues
Bright Eyes
peace out,
tiffany
