Sting reads..but not tediously

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Michael--

Odd though it may seem, Jerry Garcia (of the Grateful Dead) and his
lyricist, Robert Hunter, were reading Finnegans Wake while living on
Haight Street--late 60s San Francisco. I have yet to wrap my head around
F.W. Perhaps if I took some really good acid. But, of course, I don't know
anything about such things.

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>> Mark Kohut schrieb:
>>
>> >What else has he been up to? Reading, of course. He's got a few books
>> going including Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the
>> Twentieth Century," Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" and the latest
>> by J.M. Coetzee among them.
>
> seem to recall from a Rolling Stone article back in the day
> (or maybe, cooler yet, from Creem magazine...?) that Sting
> in his early days carried a copy of Joyce's _Ulysses_ everywhere.
> He's also one of the featured personalities on the "Hooked on Books"
> posters, or was at one time...in fact, he may even have been an
> English teacher once?
> (the Sting nickname, he said in the same interview, came
> from a yellow and black striped t-shirt he used to wear)
> now everybody...."Roxanne..."
>