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Re: Otr lyric...
>From: Kelvin Bailey <prestokelvo at yahoo_com>
>Reply-To: Kelvin Bailey <prestokelvo at yahoo_com>
>To: over-the-rhine at actwin_com
>Subject: Re: Otr lyric...
>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 19:52:38 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- Dusty Volume <dustyvolume at yahoo_com> wrote:
>I was accustomed to thinking
> > that the beat poet lifestyle of that time ran
> > counter
> > to the christian dogma, but hey, what do I know?
Kelvo replied:
>Maybe that's the point. 'Jacks Valentine' was, after
>all, not written by Keroac, but by Linford. Maybe
>it's kind of an attempt to reconcile the beat poet
>lifestyle with Christianity. ("Dogma" is a very poor
>choice of words, by the way.) If so, I would be SO
>interested in hearing about that.
>I guess it's a question for Linford.
>
>Linford, are you lurking?
>
>(Linford the Lurker...heh...that's funny...)
Heh. You said Linford. Heh heh.
Thanks K, I think you answered your own question better then I could have.
I know little of J.K.'s life, having never fallen prey to the romantic
affectations of the beat-poet lifestyle that lead so many other
psuedo-intellectuals of my generation into his dwindling legion of admirers.
I only know what I get from the song.
down here on the hardwood floor,
matt
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