jack kerouac

[Bennett]

Sorry if I seemed to come down to hard on Ginsberg...

for one, it's just my opinion, but I know some other people who feel the same way. I agree with the "if we were living at the same time" kind of idea... but I guess that was part of what I was saying. I definitely think that after you get out of a certain time period his work drops dramatically in quality. Overall, (again just my opinion) I think that he has some concentrated work that is absolutely amazing, and a lot of stuff that is second rate and never lives up to his "peak" work.

I'll try to look up some stuff on Burroughs when I get home, and see if I can find something to make it a little more accessible. I agree with your description in some parts... but that's one of the reasons why I like "Naked Lunch." It's really like a prose poem in some aspects, and to be able to sustain that for the length that he does is really difficult. One of the reasons I find it interesting.