Everyone talks about Pynchon, but no love for Farina?
>>7704879
I read that a couple of months ago. It was fun but the very definition of a period piece. He might've been a more significant author if he'd lived longer, but he died before he put out anything that great.
nobody talks about farina without talking about pynchon
I love Farina!
Celebrations for a Grey Day and Reflections in a Crystal Wind are great albums, he even did the whole electric folk thing before Dylan on Reno Nevada!
His writing is great too. I read Been Down So Long often, (the film sucks!) and the short stories and poetry of his I've managed a hold of have all been great. I'm sure he could have written an absolute masterpiece if he'd stuck around longer.
If you're a Farina fan I reccomend you read "Positively 4th Street: The Life and TImes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Farina". Very lovable guy with a real enthusiasm for life.
>tfw farina lost his exemption and the monkey demon got the best of him
>>7705010
Just like Pappadopoulis.
great title but anything with the whiff of pynchon taints it as pleb lelsorandumXD shit to me.
>>7704879
Best title ever desu
>>7705029
pleb lelsoseriousDX detected.
>>7705024
I always read the ending as more of a kind of melancholy second chance.
Bump bump bump,
down the funny stairs.
Paps back on the road, vying never to lose his exemption again.
Bad-ass tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwRyodoPV4
>>7705052
The whole thing seemed like a late 50s-era send-up/pastiche of a Greek tragedy on a school campus, so I'd say there's no room for second chances.
>>7705111
Well not so much a second chance, - Paps is almost damned in the end, dips his foot in the pool of trust and a hand tries to pull him down to a watery grave - but an escape into exile. A second chance only in keeping ahead of his fate.
