i saw the greatest minds of my generation...
"we write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection"
-anais nin
on another note, i'm starting to really like those Beats. a lot of it seems like media-hype and after the fact, but what i like about them is more intrinsic.
not every piece of writing is notable but it all stands for one thing - nonconformity. as far as i know, they're the latest 'movement' type thing. it's a bit more difficult to relate to those Renaissance guys and their struggles with religion and art, or the philosophers, that well ya know overturned european thought. what else? it's all the movements ever undertaken by the underdogs. the romantics, the impressionists, the existentialists. they most closely, i can relate to.
it's a sort of socio-historic reason, so yea. and they were minds that found each other. some good books, some good poems.
writing seems so natural, say to be a writer. as opposed to being a Cost Analyst or something; you'd have endless contracts and Excel workbooks to show for your life's work. these numbers here - they convey my period of personal loss, as the numbers increase you see my progress to angst. i make no sense.
i love reading good writing.
-gp