early influence of C of L49?

[Michael Bailey]

I read it and liked it.  Drinking 30 vodka Presbyterians, the guy was
really a lush!
the best scenes were when he was in the hospital, I thought.  Or was
it psych ward?

He was living up in the same part of the country (Thousand Islands?
upstate NY on the river?) as Abbie Hoffman during the latter's
incognito activism there as friends of the river or something...I
learned this in an interview of Exley, maybe a Playboy interview?
(been a long time since I looked at a Playboy, so it was probably in
the 70s or 80s)
He wasn't real impressed with Hoffman.

P-list dreams, eh?  sounds trippy...

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have reread, after more than half my lifetime, during a couple nights of feverish illness (in which I had some kind of plist delirium dreams!)
> and why not until now, I cannot explain since it so moved me, even influenced me and did move me again and I now know a man who knew him well enough to be
> called in the wee hours of the morning,
>
> Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes.
>
> Other plisters know it? Like it? Especially younger plisters?
>
> Anyway, there are some crazy characters in it, their nuanced variety and American resonances were what I no longer much remembered and
> one of them, who is killed off in the story (and in the author's retelling of his death,  in more ways than one (In the retellings) and it is all 'fiction'
> --fantasy---Exley writes--- dies by an aerosol can exploding in a bathroom like a projectile into his neck. Once the Lot 49 aerosol memory
> explodes in one's brain, the whole section about this character is very comic like Oedipa's then.....
>
> Just connectin.