who are we?

[Michael Bailey]

Joe Allonby  wrote:
> Sorry. I found him insufferable and couldn't buy the crap I was taught
> about how he was supposed to speak to my youthful alienation.
>
>


wow, that's not the book struck me, I didn't feel moved to identify with him
so much as sympathize with him

his brother died

so he opened his eyes a little and saw how everybody's dying to be loved
and freaked out a little bit

plus you've got class and race and gender to grope with,
more cigarettes than Doc smokes pot, New York Cityscapes,
and childhood and adulthood and adolescence depicted,
and I suppose people aren't completely wrong to suspect there's
a "genuineness/phoniness" exploration going on too

while there's a lot of freedom for him to rant and rave,
still his conclusions aren't jarringly drastic, to paraphrase Bob Dylan


it's tight, too, I mean it's got all that theme and symbolism
and development and crap going on...

I dunno, still right up there with Vineland for me



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