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[readingthedark]

greygirlbeast brought up slang today and my comment ran long, so I figured I'd put it here:
An odd thing. I was complaining to Spooky about baffling online slang, and that led to a general discussion of slang as a phenomenon associated more with subcultures than with linguistic evolution, and to a discussion of slang that attended various times and scenes and

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[witchchild]

and now I want to know how you came into contact with PLW.

[readingthedark]

I went to a freaky Buddhist grad school for a degree in writing/art. The four week Summer Writing Program was mostly an homage to the Beats and contemporary experimental traditions, with a wide range of counterculture (transgressive? outrider?) writers stopping by. PLW was one of the many fonts of wisdom who lectured, debated, or rambled bizarrely into the wee hours...

[witchchild]

now that's pretty cool.

[readingthedark]

I have the strange luxury of having met most of my favorite living writers. Sometimes, it's strangely jarring (such as thinking back to when I thought Hakim Bey and PLW were two separate people and how PLW was utterly unlike the Bey I imagined), and sometimes it turns out that I love someone's work but dislike them--but it's almost always interesting!

[witchchild]

I would call that a good learning experience.