Happy Anniversary!

Four years already, how quickly the time has gone!
Happy Anniversary beluosus


I love you!!!!

Beat

Well I guess it's not all berets and turtle necks. The past few days I've been reading "On the Road" and loving it. Fascinating stuff, if I'm not careful a new obsession will start. I'm intrigued by the women in the story. Why did they turn against convention? What were they thinking? What did they talk to each other about? I'm sure there has been much written on this. Part of me is leery of the idea of "scholarship" around such a topic. The new/original version of "On the Road" I bought for Bill seems to have 100 pages of scholarly essays before the text starts. When everything is so raw, trying to figure it all out just seems sacriligious. Mostly I am very pleased to see that there were rebels, drug users, gays, and people interested in sex before rock and roll and the myth of 50s america is just a myth. It seemed a link between opium eater and today. I've always said I'm not a big poetry fan but I just read "howl" and it was amazing. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Ramble/howl_text.html
I feel terribly saddened that the gothic subculture has produced nothing at all comparable to these guys. Right, 50 pages left, should get back to reading.