highly educated american generic

"Highly Educated American Generic," August 24, 2022 (#236)

title from "How the Hell Do We Fix the Creative Writing Workshop?" by Jennifer Schaffer (2021)

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'n' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'n' Roll by Lester Bangs (1987)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

Highly Educated American Generic

I tell you there was once a gang that was so bitchin’ bad that they

hardly remember what part of the woods we were in. Head just

seemed to take place, as the hippie-types who had predominated

to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos

would write whole new volumes in tonsorial culture: shaving

should do some climbing up to where that wind starts. I think

we spent an afternoon trying to work up arrangements to go with

a faint, faint fragment of memory, possibly wrong, possibly just

the feeling that you don’t have any, or how much ostensible power

increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes?

8-24-22

8-24-22

Almost Famous (2000) (here).

Spencer (2021).

The Last Supper (The Big C) by Andy Warhol (1986) (here).

8-9-22