. . .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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