Yes, Yes, YES!

[Mark Kohut]

Vineland is partly about the deadliness of nostagia (for the sixties), yes? 

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:19:23 PM
Subject: Re: Yes, Yes, YES!

Mark Kohut  wrote:
> Robin writes:
> Just so you understand—uttering the word "Ghost" just ain't PC no-more. But isn't a ghost, really, a kind of simulacrum? A person without a body, a body without organs, a soul without the substance or qualities of the original man or woman? And doesn't that describe so beautifully the quotidian lives of those who gave up on or were betrayed by the 60's, those "returning deceased war veterans" and once-upon-a-time revolutionaries turned couch-potatoes? Ghosts?
>
>


reminds me of an old joke, the man asks the waiter what kind of soup
he just served him -- the waiter goes, "it's bean soup"
the guy goes "I don't care what it's been, what is it now?"

but, if you sort of trend in a different way, like I''m not totally
down with what they are now and I don't presume to say where they're
heading, but my weren't they something!
you can get a feel for what they were then.  whiff the smells of the
time; be with Weed as he climbs in Yosemite; see the tear-gassed eyes;
remember the studiousness of Snuvvle and the assertion of his
conscience over the State Dept's party line

emotion recollected in tranquillity...


these are too scattered to post to the list, but I thought you might
relate a little, or maybe have some similar thoughts


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