McCintic McClintoc

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

John Bailey schrieb:

> Must say, I also re-read Kerouac's evocation of some jazz gigs last night. 
> Pretty wild. You can kind of see how TRP was so impressed by On The Road. 
> Not so impressed, meself.


  "against the undeniable power of tradition, we were attracted by such 
  centrifugal lures as norman mailer's essay 'the white negroe', the wide 
  availability of recorded jazz, and a book i still believe is one of the great 
  american novels, o n   t h e   r o a d, by jack kerouac."
   
                                         (thomas pynchon: slow learner, p. 9)  

 kfl //:: ps: with 16 i tried to read "on the road" in german which didn't work 
 (- this kind of stuff seems just untranslatable). --- years later, a cloudy 
 friday afternoon in the studentenwohnheim. all of sudden i had the chance to,  
 well, support the south american economy. having had started to do so, my  
 glance fell on a copy of the original of "on the road", someone had left in my 
 room. i picked up the book, started to read & ... did not stop untill the book 
 was over on sunday morning ... i guess it was leslie fiedler who first took  
 balint's  psychoanalytical term "philobatic" (- wideness loving) to point out  
 the crucial quality of american culture ...  [- btw, what's kerouac's second 
 best novel?]