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I thought it was the greatest, coolest city of the world! |
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I don't know when that was filmed but it looks almost like a studio mock up of the city about a hundred years ago.
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As if Paris was/is any different...
Cool vid.
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When you're from somewhere, you have a strangely distorted view of a place.
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I love hearing old men cuss it up.
henry miller, even in his disgust at NYC, is probably even more disgusted by the mainstream spectacle times square has become.
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Times Square was obviously my biggest disappointment when i visited NY. Although i did know that it was crap before I went. On the whole though I loved the place.
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I will be there next week tuesday and wednesday, or is it wednesday and thursday? cannot remember.
yay! road trip begins on saturday!!!!!!!!!
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Not at all. Distorted was probably the wrong word. What i meant was that someone who grows up in a place has a very intimate understanding of it that people who haven't might not relate to. |
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Tropic of Cancer. Great book.
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Sounds like he wasn't getting laid much at the end.
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Paris is horrible, in a good way.
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I have to admit that Henry miller is one author I've never been able to get into. I read Capricorn and Cancer but just didn't see it at all. I should give him another go. I read them when I was about 16, which may have been a bit young.
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Yeah, but 'subjective' sounds a bit too dismissive (although admittedly not as bad as 'distorted'). Intimate suggests a more deeper understanding.
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tropic of cancer wasnt as enjoyable as id been led to believe
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From you, this astonishes me. Miller, I maintain, was like the beats but had a much firmer grip on his subservience to better writers. By which I mean he dicks about with stream of consciousness but doesn't quite turn into the mawkish terror that is Kerouac. He talks like a snake-oil charmer but is just Jewish enough to get away with it - sorry, Burroughs acolytes. Also, he's a bit of a pathetic character, something I've always found lacking from a lot of American writers - someone like Easton-Ellis always heads towards this pseudo-nihilism that just galls. Ok, so I've just insulted most of your taste in books, but a lot of you really need to stop reading like a 19-year-old.
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burroughs is boring
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I read Tropics Of Cancer and loved it. I read Colossus Of Maroussi and couldn't even finish it. Either I'm a perv, or he is just hit or miss with me.
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