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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:45:53 +0200

Reply-To:     Rinaldo Rasa <rinaldo@GPNET.IT>

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From:         Rinaldo Rasa <rinaldo@GPNET.IT>

Subject:      Beat generation/Ezra Pound, winter 1970/reverie

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DEAR friends,

                when I was YounG

                        i was 20

 

i saw a man             in VeNice               on a bridge

 

the man stand & looked  the laguna di Venezia

Torcello        Burano          San Francesco del Deserto

                        ISlands

                        cold winter

                        in 1970

                        white hair

                        cold wind

                        blew

there was the time i have glimpsed a poet & this image

sculpted in my eyes, years later i realized he was Ezra

Pound, photos on papers recall the image, yes, like othe

r things in the life of a generation became "ghost" thin

g,

 

---

yrs

Rinaldo * be a beetle or better a beet *

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:13:36 -0500

Reply-To:     "William H. Rose, III" <schpill@EXECPC.COM>

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From:         "William H. Rose, III" <schpill@EXECPC.COM>

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Barb Wirtz wrote:

 

Hopefully I'm caught up on all responses...I would like to point out

that although I am defending Eliot as a better poet, I really didn't

want to do so at the expense of Ginsberg...I would rather just present

Eliot in all his genius, richness, complexity, and skill...and leave it

at that.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.  I did enjoy rereading

Ginsberg and Eliot...so I think whoever posed the question really did a

service...and I have enjoyed immensely the insights and input by those

participating.

(ummm...is it my misperception...or were most of you around in the

'60's...living a beat lifestyle... Sincerely, I'd just like to gauge.

To my delight, it sounds as if many of you were part of the movement,

even contributers! If so, what a boon! a celestial cyber site! I really

dropped in because I'm reading Kerouac....but it seems as if I'll be

reading much much more than just Kerouac!

 Barb

 

Try the following:

 

William S. Burroughs

Allen Ginsberg

Franz Kafka

James Joyce

Charles Plymell

Greg Corso

Gary Snyder

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

and the greatest beat of them all

Leonardo da Vinci

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:42:51 -0500

Reply-To:     jo grant <jgrant@BOOKZEN.COM>

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From:         jo grant <jgrant@BOOKZEN.COM>

Subject:      Re: Jo and Jeff 'n S.Clay

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>Thanks, Jo G sent me what i believe to be the bulk of todays mail ,

>calling in the darkness and the beat responds with heart.  I finally

>sent in my money for the beat l teeshirt, so do you think it will be

>here before s clay hits town (lawrence) i want to be a cool, old, fat

>and faded hippy fan. keep on trucking you persons.

>

>patricia

 

When will S.Clay be in Lawrence? Is he there for reasons other than

personal visits ? It's many miles from Madison, but I've taken longer

trips, by land and see, for reasons less compelling than meeting such an

insightful, creative artist.

 

j grant

 

 

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:27:33 -0400

Reply-To:     Bill Philibin <deadbeat@BUFFNET.NET>

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From:         Bill Philibin <deadbeat@BUFFNET.NET>

Subject:      Re: Windowpoopies

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> Mine looks that way anyway!!!! But has any poet/literary geek ever driven

a

> cool car?

 

 

        I have a Saturn... Does that count ? *grin*

 

        -Bill

 

[  email: deadbeat@buffnet.net  |  web: http://www.buffnet.net/~deadbeat  ]

|              "All human beings are becoming humanoids...

|               All over the world, not just in America.

|               We're just getting there faster

|               since we're the most advanced country."

|

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:45:09 -0400

Reply-To:     "R. Bentz Kirby" <bocelts@SCSN.NET>

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From:         "R. Bentz Kirby" <bocelts@SCSN.NET>

Organization: Law Office of R. Bentz kirby

Subject:      missed the 50's

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I am 43.  I often regret that I am so young and missed out on the 50's

and the beats.  Anybody else in that predicament of feel that way.

 

Oh well, as someone once said, somethings gained in living every day.

 

--

 

Peace,

 

Bentz

bocelts@scsn.net

http://www.scsn.net/users/sclaw

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:04:02 -0500

Reply-To:     jo grant <jgrant@BOOKZEN.COM>

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From:         jo grant <jgrant@BOOKZEN.COM>

Subject:      Re: blake and all

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>mebbe off topic but since subject of blake/ AG has come around again

>(sorry, very behind on mail and picking up long ago thread)     is anyone

>here aware of greg brown's beautiful renditions of blake into song? CD is

>titled songs of innoncence and experience. the chimney sweeper has never

>failed to bring me to tears.  music is beautiful, has wonderful fiddle

>player (peter ostroususko) as well as rest of fellows on band.

>highly recommend it, absolutely soul wrenching interpretations in music of

>the lyrics mc

 

Marie,

Great take on Greg Brown. His innocence/experience CD is exceptional, but

on each of his CDs--and his music is all original with the exception of a

Jimmy Rogers song I heard him sing--you'll find lyrics--pure poetry-- that

would stand alone without the music. When Greg's daughter Pieta and my

Charity were pre-school they were part of our coop daycare center in Iowa

City called Alice's Bijou. Long gone now, but back then Greg would help

with fund raising, all the parents worked,and we had full-time day care for

$20.00 a month. As long as Alices existed it was a must stop for Michael

Harrington whenever he was in i.c.

 

I'm drifting. Back to the poetry of GB. AS far as I'm concerned greg is one

of the best poets to ever come out of Iowa City--and he didn't spend any

time with the workshop.

 

j grant

 

 

 

 

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:20:52 +0000

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In response to the Eliot / Ginsberg discourse:

 

        This is exactly where i'm at. How are these boys different and why.

First of all, we have to remember that Eliot is a full generation

earlier (contemporary of WWI and pre- Holocaust / Bomb / . . . ). The

two writers are from completely different traditions = Eliot consciously

(unconsciously ?) broke away from Whitman's prophetic American

democratic freedom dancing voice, whereas Ginsberg continued it (as did

W.C.Williams).

        With regards to Ginsberg's "Moloch", it is primarily the god to whom

children were sacrificed to by the Canaanites of the Hebrew Scriptures

and post-WWII boom/commercial/Bomb/urban grime that is being described:

 

"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton

        treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations!

        invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"

 

                                                - Howl, part II

 

It is dangerous to compare the Eliot tradition and Ginsberg tradition as

being polar opposites. The major difference in my appreciation of these

poets is their spirit. Eliot returns to Europe (physically as well, as

did Pound), and Ginsberg emerses himself in Americana, following

Whitman. As well, an encyclopedia is needed when reading Eliot   but

then, when reading Ginsberg, much is lost if the reader does not know

Ginsberg's life story.

 

        For myself as a poet, it is the spirit which separates the two. Eliot =

back to the old ways / Ginsberg = into the western front. This is

somewhat simplistic. It also doesn't help that each writer is so

complex. The nature of this list tells me that most of you prefer

reading Ginsberg, I have to agree   yet the concept of the two

traditions as being polar opposites with fists into each other is

something we have to get rid of, the two traditions simply unravel side

by side, feeding off each other.

 

Joseph Neudorfer

neudorf@discovland.net

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:31:50 -0500

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From:         =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sinverg=FCenza?= <ljilk@GUINAN.MPS.ORG>

Subject:      Paranoia

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has anyone heard or read something where Burroughs says that the natural

state of one who knows all is paranoia? something like that. i'd appreciate

it if someone could send that to me if they have the quote.

thanks,

 

-Leo

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:54:57 -0500

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Sinverg=FCenza wrote:

>=20

> has anyone heard or read something where Burroughs says that the natura=

l

> state of one who knows all is paranoia? something like that. i'd apprec=

iate

> it if someone could send that to me if they have the quote.

> thanks,

>=20

> -Leo

 

something like:

 

a psychopath is someone who knows what's really going on ... i don't

recall the exact words.

 

david rhaesa

salina, Kansas

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:46:49 -0400

Reply-To:     mike@infinet.com

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From:         "Michael L. Buchenroth" <mike@INFINET.COM>

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Subject:      Re: Kerouac: The meaning of life?

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Attila Gyenis wrote:

>

> In a message dated 97-06-17 06:42:12 EDT, you write:

 

> Humans are one of the few animals (if not the only animal) that are aware of

> the fact that they are going to die.

 

How do you know this? How do you support this claim? Can you provide

documentation to support this claim?

 

-Mike Buchenroth

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:06:46 -0400

Reply-To:     Marioka7@AOL.COM

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From:         Maya Gorton <Marioka7@AOL.COM>

Subject:      Re: heroin and aging

Comments: To: country@sover.net

 

In a message dated 97-06-18 14:24:45 EDT, you write:

 

<<

 whoa there! this thread may be dead, as i am crushed under tons of email

 from a few days away from list, but go down to any methadone clinic, any

 innercity and the idealism will fall away. i worked for 3 years in a new

 haven ct methadone clinic:  i counseled i wept and i buried so many people,

 i've been there myself. there is no glory in it there is no eternal youth

 fountain in it. tortured people tortured bodies. wsb is the exception to

 the rule. ok standing down from my soap box

 mc

  >>

i agree 100% but was just making observation that many of my idols are very

well preserved ex-dope addicts.  Is this more than coincidence?

(((((((((((((((((((((NOBODY KNOWS))))))))))))))))))))))))))

i certainly wouldn't encourage anyone to try to find out.

-------------------------------maya("dope is for dope-heads")

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:18:43 -0500

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Subject:      Re: Kerouac: The meaning of life?

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>Attila Gyenis wrote:

>>

>> In a message dated 97-06-17 06:42:12 EDT, you write:

>

>> Humans are one of the few animals (if not the only animal) that are aware=

 of

>> the fact that they are going to die.

>

>How do you know this? How do you support this claim? Can you provide

>documentation to support this claim?

>

>-Mike Buchenroth

 

The Joy of Fishes

 

Chang Tzu and Hui Tzu

Were crossing Hao River

By the Dam.

 

Chuang said:

        "See how free

        The fishes leap and dart:

        That is their happiness."

 

Hui replied:

        "Since you are not a fish

        How do you know

        What makes fishes happy?"

 

Chuang said:

        "Since you are not I

        How can you possibly know

        That I do not know

        What makes fishes happy?"

 

Hui argued:

        "If I, not being you,

        Cannot know what you know

        It follows that you

        Not being a fish

        Cannot know what they know."

 

Chuang said:

 

"Wait a minute!

Let us get back

To the original question.

What you asked me was

'How do you know

What makes fishes happy'.

=46rom the terms of your question

You evidently know I know

What makes fish happy.

 

"I know the joy of fishes

In the river

Through my own joy, as I go walking

Along the same river."

 

--Chuang Tzu, trans. Thomas Merton

 

Leo Jilk

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:26:20 -0400

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From:         Maya Gorton <Marioka7@AOL.COM>

Subject:      story by a 17 year old girl

 

maya gorton

                                INSERT TITLE HERE

 

        He awoke to the buzz-buzz-THUMP, buzz-buzz-THUMP of a fly hurling itself

persistently against the windowpane.  He remained immobile for a moment, eyes

still closed, savoring the last fading traces of unconsciousness.  Slowly, he

grew aware that the fly was not a product of his dreamy brain, but was

instead a part of some other, more distant reality.  He blinked his way into

consciousness.  His eyes began to focus, and he soon realized that he

belonged to the same world as the fly.

 

        Sitting up, he looked around at this strange but familiar world.  A flood of

glowing yellowness was exploding in through the window and made everything in

his cluttered room drip with sunlight.  It came from the same place towards

which the reckless fly was directing its futile attempts to escape.

 

        The sound of the fly's small body hitting the unyielding glass made him

cringe.  He stood up, and, in an act of true mercy, he opened the window.

 The fly buzzed off happily into the morning brightness.

 

        He knew he was in a good mood that morning, because, ordinarily, he wouldn't

have gotten up to open the window.  Instead, he would have stayed in bed,

letting himself become increasingly annoyed at the fly, letting himself

become more and more irritated with it, until he was actually bursting with

aggression towards it, and only then would he have stood up and furiously

smacked it, with a shoe, or perhaps even with his bare hand.  He would smack

it just softly enough so that the window wouldn't break, but just hard enough

so that the fly would be reduced to a flat oozing jumble of legs and wings

against the glass.  "Stupid insect!", he would mutter.

 

        But today he didn't feel the need for this.  It was Sunday, after all.

 Through the open window, the air itself had that lazy Sunday smell of peace

and contentment.  This was the one day he could bask in the luxury of

idleness, and he reveled at the prospect of doing absolutely nothing for an

entire day.

 

        From the armchair by the window, he could observe the street below.  He

often sat there in the morning with a mugful of coffee, watching the people

on the block acting out their daily routines.  They did the same things over

and over, every day with a barely noticeable variation; it was as if they

were rehearsing for a play, or a movie, or perhaps something else, something

greater that they didn't quite understand.

 

        This morning was different, though, and he had almost forgotten why until he

saw them coming.  Groups of them, in their prim and proper clothes, swarmed

towards the church like flies towards a bleeding carcass.  He was amazed at

the number of people who had chosen to sacrifice such a delicious morning for

such a strange purpose.

 

        After a while, they were all inside.  He pictured them in the gloomy stone

building, row upon row of identical upturned faces, clutching identical books

in their hands.  Something within him shuddered as he contemplated this.  He

felt that there were souls behind the faces that were struggling, struggling

hard but to no avail to grasp something that was beyond their reach.

 

        They had the promise of beauty and light and salvation and freedom, but

something kept them from touching these things.  They were trying as hard as

they could to break through what prevented them from their destination.  But

their efforts were futile.  And yet, these souls still repeatedly strove with

all their might for the unreachable.

 

        He sighed.  Would someone eventually open the window for them? Or would they

be smashed in mid-struggle and never reach what they were striving for at

all?

 

 

        He went back to bed.

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:35:05 -0400

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From:         Maya Gorton <Marioka7@AOL.COM>

Subject:      existential overdose.....leading to withdrawal (just felt like

              posting it again)

 

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE SOMETHING THAT BEGINS WITH BE

 

IS IT GOOD? IS IT BAD? DOES IT MAKE YOU SAD OR GLAD?

 

  I don't know, I don't care

                   it doesn't touch me (anywhere)

 

::climbs into stone sarcophagus, lies down facing upwards. slowly shifts

heavy slab into place.

::when the lid is securely in place, it is airtight, and totally dark.

 

DO YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR BRAIN?  DO YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR VEIN?

 

    i do not feel it here nor there! nor ANYWHERE!

                  NOT IN MY BRAIN

                  NOT IN THE RAIN

                  ALL IS IN VAIN

                  I MUST BE INSANE.............

 

::suddenly, suffocation::

                  "For what dreams may come---"

 

     As a matter of fact, it was one of those "something horrible is chasing

me and its going to kill me" dreams.  They say these dreams are the peculiar

affliction of people who feel guilty about something, like when you're

avoiding a responsibility.

Anyway, I was running like a murderer...but from what?

     runnrunrunning running running running simultaneously from and after

something but I couldn't tell what it was

  all I knew was I HAD to catch up with it

                       or else...

     But it kept out of sight. It was just around the corner, a corner I had

not dared to round before.  The corner kept getting further and further away,

no matter how fast I ran-- it was just beyond my reach.  Running, running...

 

NOTHING'S HAPPENING

 

If I could just see what it was...I HAD to know.

 

(running)

 

I ran past the Point of No Return.  I only had one drop of energy left.

     I was running on empty.  "This is it", I thought.  One drop left. The

final stretch--after this, turning back is as good as death, I might as well

give it one, last, final PPUUSSHH....

 

        !!THEN SUDDENLY!!

 

OH, NO! As soon as horrified recognition crept in, i tried to look away, but

it was too late.

I was in it, surrounded by it, blinded, deafened by it.

 

it was the face of my mother

her face!

She's crying and it's my fault..

 

     In a convulsion of horror and fear and grief, I howled.

My underwater dream over.

 

     The air I now had to breathe scorched my lungs.

I felt like I was inhaling all the dust of the world.

 

        ~~~*~~~

 

     For three long days and three long nights I twisted in agony as forces

inside wrestled for control.  Absolute terror.  Every nerve in my body

stretched to the maximum, a Tug-of-War against myself.

 

A most cruel and violent exorcism.

 

     Sleep seemed further away than the sun is to the Underworld.  And the

COLD...

A thousand winters rushing through me.

 

     All the monsters and demons of Hell laughed evilly as they watched me

turn into ice.  One cell at a time chrystallizing.  A chain reaction.

     I saw my imminent doom as just another ice-statue in their trophy

gallery, fully conscious but forever cursed with the inability to

move...another victory for Doom.

     If only I could crawl out of this too-tight skin...

 

     If I killed myself, it would be another victory for them.

And my parents' grief...

     Could it be that I still loved? After all?

 

     The Destroyer laughed. "Fool!", said he, "Haven't you learned yet to

cast off that perfidious illusion?"

 

     "GO AWAY!", I screamed.

I put my hands over my ears and began to sing.

 

Destroyer: (laughs evilly)

         : (disappears in puff of smoke)

 

     Maya, or illusion, fighting for the most insane idea she could dream of,

which was to love.

 

        ~~~*~~~

 

On the 4th day I finally reached Sleep.

On the 5th day, I awoke: 1.Consciousness

                         2.Opened my eyes

                         3.Stood up on my new legs*

 

     *this took a long time. My new legs were weak, since I was used to

swimming and not walking.  I faltered and was unsteady at first, but soon got

used to it.

 

On the 6th day, the sun warmed me, and I decided it must be Spring.

 

On the 7th day, I looked at the world with my new sensory powers, smelled it

heard it felt it, and I saw that it could be alright, sometimes.

 

I took a deep breath, inhaling all the colors, and began to write, paint,

sing, dance, wildly so that I would never again forget what it means to be

alive.

 

        ~~~*~~~

 

feel free to delete promptly but comments appreciated

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:46:30 -0400

Reply-To:     CVEditions@AOL.COM

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From:         Pamela Beach Plymell <CVEditions@AOL.COM>

Subject:      Re: the old gun and the odd gun

 

Patricia:

It's a long way from the old Rock Chalk Cafe and Grist magazine in Lawrence.

 Did you ever notify S. Clay about the early works you have of his? He was

wracking his brain when he gave them to you. He started talking about one

girlfriend of his who was a model at KU who got Pam a job there while I was

working at the bean factory with the bosses promises of a big wienie in the

sky.

Charley

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Date:         Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:56:47 -0500

Reply-To:     Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

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From:         Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      Re: the old gun and the odd gun

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Pamela Beach Plymell wrote:

>

> Patricia:

> It's a long way from the old Rock Chalk Cafe and Grist magazine in Lawrence.

>  Did you ever notify S. Clay about the early works you have of his? He was

> wracking his brain when he gave them to you. He started talking about one

> girlfriend of his who was a model at KU who got Pam a job there while I was

> working at the bean factory with the bosses promises of a big wienie in the

> sky.

> Charley

patricia wrote

I don't actually know him (s clay), I admire him tremendously and have

met him several times but  i do not know where he lives.  i got the

pictures as part of a bad debt, i sell junk, (like furniture and

building parts) and often will swap and trade things. I believe I

furnished a bedroom with cheap furniture for those. He signed them years

later. I heard he was coming to town, but i don't know any exact

information  but he might of come and gone. If he hasn't i might see him

for he knows people i know. I would be pleased to give them to him as a

gift, if you think he would enjoy or be able to use them. Other wise i

hoard them as i do my other trifles. I would be happy to just pop them

in the mail. of course i don't have his address.

patricia

 



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