GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Fri Dec 17 08:26:59 CST 1999


Peter Petto schrieb:

> Maybe so, but I'd put TRP and WSB in different categories on one test: I've 
> put my entire Burroughs connection into storage, essentially hiding them 
> from my young daughter.
>
> I suppose this act means that I consider the reading of Pynchon a good 
> example for her, but not Burroughs.
>
> Matt Groening said in the intro to a book about Robert Crumb: "we used to 
> hide our comics from our parents, now we hide them from our children."


   Well, you really name a problem here. In 4 years my daughter will be able to 
   read, & we're living in a 3-room-flat. Where to put all these erotica & drug 
   literature?! Maybe I'll have to get myself a poison-cupboard or something. 
   But then this is so phony ... 
                                 Helpless, KFL




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