V-2nd - Chap 8 / All We Are Saying Is Give "V." A Chance . . .

[Robin Landseadel]

All of TRP's books have this Iceland Spar/medical transparency overlay  
aspect, laying the present over the past. "On The Road," written in  
1951, is published in 1957. "Howl" came out [so to speak] in 1956.  
Many of the folks that would be at the center of the great folk scare  
wandered into the Village in the fifties, around the time Benny's  
swatting the flies with a rolled up NYT. By 1963, a lot of these folks  
were making their mark, but back then they were all scuffling. By  
1963, "On The Road" was a best-selling, mass-market paperback. I  
should know. My mother had one, dated 1963.

On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Mike is riffing like a fine session man and love your jammin'...V.  
> does seem
> like TRP wedged 'tween....
>
> Just want to add, from my deep unhipness, not to forget that TRp set  
> V. in
> 55-56....that center of the dead fifties...
> and, although pubbed in early 1963...............
>
> Isn't very, imho.