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This ‘shrewd observation’ is based on nothing. It has no correlation in reality. SFG, you’re making huge generalizations that are simply not true. These books are actually NOT read at the university level nor at the high school level as part of the curriculum. The college curricula now are...

Traffic by Soderbergh was a remake of Traffik by someone else, which was even better. In fact. all of the good aspects of Soder's version were lifted directly from the original, while all of the watered-down, 'soft' bits of Soderberg's version were his very own.

I don't think that's true at all. Can you give an example? As I said earlier, I think these writers were who they were as lifelong projects and never joined the mainstream. Nor were they accepted into it. Read any of their obituaries. Hunter S. Thompson and Ginsberg both died not long ago...

You definitely don't need a companion book to read The Name of the Rose. It's a straightforward narrative, and the details and references are well within the average person's experience. It might help to have some knowledge of medieval Catholic practices and beliefs (which any Western Christian...

It's really about two brother princes who each want control of their family's oil-rich kingdom, and their various 'backers.' The elder prince is more progressive and Westernized (and has a more humane big picture of the world), but the younger, a silly, playboy traditionalist, is favored...

What point are you trying to make in the context of this discussion?

All interesting questions, Peder. First, I think that no canon is unchanging. What was regarded as the best poetry 100 years ago is hardly read now (with a few extremely exceptional exceptions such as Shakespeare and Homer). Matthew Arnold? John Donne? These guys are read in literature...

Because it's not just 'fiction', it's an intentionally manipulative morality play, a cautionary tale written by The Man. To me, books in the counterculture canon (if there is one, as this thread is about) posit and explore ideas, ways of living, and ways of writing that were previously ignored...

Hey there, opti. Mind on other things. Will post a bit later. Thanks for reminding me!

Hmmm, 'incredulity' seems to be very current and used to me. But, ah, the word 'knave' has unfortunately fallen by the wayside. And 'whelp,' as in "he was a whelp of a lad, with a gob of custard on his chin."

Go out for dinner without them. Serve them terrible food. Bring the television to the 'repair shop' Have a cleaning service come in for a day while they're there. Ask them to do the shopping (and pay for it) Invite some others over and explain how your 'guests' have been there for a...

My advice was based on the sunglasses.

Ell, I'm terribly sorry to say borrowing doesn't count. It's like wearing some else's clothes. :o

Glad to oblige, MC. I'll just type the data in. You know it's the color that counts, right? Okay, the PEM is humming along. First run of the day. Let's see. . . "You are confident and generally friendly, but can morph into aggression and even, yes even, a touch of obnoxiousness, in your...

Come back when you're official, V. But my advice to you is, do not aspire to be, just be.

Don't tell me . . . it's a pink El Dorado with flash caps. Then again, it might be a brown 1974 Chevy Nova.

Actually, Kerouac edited and revised his work a lot. That he 'just wrote' is a myth, though when he edited his work, he tried very hard to capture that 'just written on the fly' feeling. Most firsts drafts of poems need substantial revising and can be improved greatly. But at least one great...

Because the activist is an individual who chooses to take those actions. A person compelled by the mandate of a gov't is not an activist, though they may be acting. The soldiers in Iraq are not activists who support the war, they are tools of the gov't.

Oh no, navy blue with wooden panels? I know this one's going to be bad. The PEM is taking it in very slowly. Wait, it stopped for a minute. Okay, it's going again. Here comes the ticker tape . . . "You are fascinated by very dirty people and prefer the deep woods to the beach. Dankness...

Remember, now, it's all about the color. The make and model and age mean nothing. It's a highly calibrated color theory system. Okay, feeding in Moonstone . . . whoa, it's all flashing and whizzing. It says "you like to blend in and may confuse acquisitiveness with adventure. You desperately...