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[viva_anger]

Such an opportunity! Again! Being young and in love is just this on-going set of lucky options and always having the world in front of you. I can't believe how many fucking rad things are happening in our benefit. I couldn't look for anything else in a place like this for August. Living in the best town in the country, for next to no money. I feel

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[stoptheriot]

ahh yeah i've always wanted to read lolita too

[viva_anger]

read it now and then we'll trade insight about it

[lowlywoodcutter]

"If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino. It WILL blow your mind.

I also really liked "As I Lay Dying" (Faulkner) and, though everyone loves to hype it, "Heart of Darkness" is really, really amazing. Believe the hype, please. As for poets, e e cummings would be a diff. perspective from all your beats. Oh, and have you read Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle?" That book has, quite literally, the best ending to a book I've ever read. (I LOVE breakfast of champs, too!)

[viva_anger]

i'll check that one out!

no, i haven't read Cat's Cradle or As I Lay Dying yet, i was out of reading beat literature for like three books and since i read Queer Beats i'm right back into it. i can't stay away!

[viva_anger]

ah, i haven't read that dylan one yet. i must soon!

[worshipable]

breakfast of champions and the sirens of titan are my two absolute fav vonnegut books, slaughterhouse five is awesome too though

i just finished reading 'a scanner darkly' by philip k dick, it was actually really awesome - it plays with your head

[viva_anger]

thanks!

[ericana]

ive read neruda's 'twenty love poems and a song of despair' quite a few times now, he and e.e. cummings are the only poets i ever really liked. i'm hoping to branch out a little as far as poetry goes. i'm so excited to see you. your new place sounds great, and i think it would be funny to be the one crashing on your couch for once. your letter will probably get here in a day or two, if you give me your new address i'll write you back

[viva_anger]

oh i love, love neruda! "i can write the saddest verses tonight..." is absolutely heartwrenching.

i can recommend some poetry for you, though my taste is kind of weird due to my sick obsession with the 1950's poets. it's all free-verse nonsense coming from people under one type of intoxication or another. easier heard and seen then read, but i still am infatuated by it.

i'll give you my new address once i'm actually moved in, i don't want mail their until i'm actually living there, haha. sorry if my letter is a little sketchy or weird, i banged out like 10 letters in a row and was just sort of loopy towards the end.