. . .End of Art

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 20:09:53 CDT 2009


P has been grouped with a few authors who it's said employ 
systems/antisystems, subversion of all polarities, ambiguity . . .
On the face of it IV converges a little to:
Ronald Sukenick
Cows
http://www.altx.com/ebooks/download.cfm/cows.pdf

Out
http://www.altx.com/out/0.html

http://www.altx.com/out/ronbio.html
"When I started rereading OUT seriously in the course of putting it 
online, I felt a growing conviction that the book had been written by 
a shockingly demented lunatic. Then I remembered that I wrote it. And 
that the lives of many of us had a maniac quality at the time. And 
that the era it epitomized--it was published in 1973--was a 
shockingly lunatic period. The book in its manic way catches the tone 
of the time as I remember it. The movie made from the book several 
years later (starring Peter Coyote and Danny Glover, still available 
in many video stores) though excellent in its way, is sane by 
comparison. OUT, it seems to me, is tuned in to some other 
reality--speedy, hysterical, wise, obscene, comic, crazy and 
shamanic, a trip in more ways than one--but a reality that's still as 
real as sex, dreams, desire, spiritual anguish and a yearning for 
salvation and cosmic justice.

And besides, a life without a little madness in it is hardly worth living." 




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