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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
30 mar 2010
Are there two Kerouacs, the sociological one and the the real (literary) one? Discuss.
"real (literary)" -- funny declaration of self-awareness, my friend!
There is a third Kerouac, the biographical one, alas.
As you know, Kerouac was very important to me, an inspiration. As a writer. As a person, he was often rotten: covered up a murder, refused to recognize the daughter he fathered, disparaged homosexuals but had sex with men, and on and on.
His writing was wildly uneven -- but that's OK, because we judge writers by their best writing. Kerouac wrote some of the best paragraphs and lines of the 20th century.
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"real (literary)" -- funny declaration of self-awareness, my friend!
There is a third Kerouac, the biographical one, alas.
As you know, Kerouac was very important to me, an inspiration. As a writer. As a person, he was often rotten: covered up a murder, refused to recognize the daughter he fathered, disparaged homosexuals but had sex with men, and on and on.
His writing was wildly uneven -- but that's OK, because we judge writers by their best writing. Kerouac wrote some of the best paragraphs and lines of the 20th century.
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