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New Mandate! "On the road"
On 2012-07-15 22:01:11 -0700, tony cooper said:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:43:23 -0700 (PDT), otter wrote: On Jul 15, 1:53*pm, SI Committee wrote: * * *The new mandate, selected from the May "request" is: * * * * * * * * * * * * On the Road. * * *Whether "street", travel, or along your road to work, take * *advantage of the summer to capture the essential "Road" photo. I didn't take it, but here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...s/19campb.html Hmmm. When I see "On the Road", I think of Kerouac, not Leary. If the mandate was "Turn on, tune in, drop out", I'd think of Leary. Kerouac had little to do with Leary. He would have been too far gone as an alcoholic and near death when that shot was taken. However, you have in that image Neil Cassady, Kerouac's friend portrayed as "Dean Moriarty" a major protagonist, along with Kerouac's self-characterization of "Sal Paradis" in "On The Road". Of course, "On the Road" was published in 1957 when I was in college, so the reference might be more meaningful to me. Leary came to prominence a decade or so later. ....and Leary would be found with Cassady sometime between 1968-1971 and their travels with Ken Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" on Kesey's "Magic Bus". All that was documented In Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". -- Regards, Savageduck |
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New Mandate! "On the road"
On 2012-07-15 22:23:50 -0700, Savageduck said:
On 2012-07-15 22:01:11 -0700, tony cooper said: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:43:23 -0700 (PDT), otter wrote: On Jul 15, 1:53*pm, SI Committee wrote: * * *The new mandate, selected from the May "request" is: * * * * * * * * * * * * On the Road. * * *Whether "street", travel, or along your road to work, take * *advantage of the summer to capture the essential "Road" photo. I didn't take it, but here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...s/19campb.html Hmmm. When I see "On the Road", I think of Kerouac, not Leary. If the mandate was "Turn on, tune in, drop out", I'd think of Leary. Kerouac had little to do with Leary. He would have been too far gone as an alcoholic and near death when that shot was taken. However, you have in that image Neil Cassady, Kerouac's friend portrayed as "Dean Moriarty" a major protagonist, along with Kerouac's self-characterization of "Sal Paradis" in "On The Road". Of course, "On the Road" was published in 1957 when I was in college, so the reference might be more meaningful to me. Leary came to prominence a decade or so later. ...and Leary would be found with Cassady sometime between 1968-1971 and their travels with Ken Kesey and his "Merry Pranksters" on Kesey's "Magic Bus". All that was documented In Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". Actually that should be sometime between 1965-1968 since Cassady died in 1968. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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New Mandate! "On the road"
"otter" wrote: I didn't take it, but here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...s/19campb.html Here's some music that goes with the pictu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFDiuY7yE4 And here's a picture that goes with that music: http://www.pbase.com/davidjl/image/119895297/large (But it's off topic for this thread. Sorry. Sue me.) -- David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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New Mandate! "On the road"
On 2012-07-16 08:13 , David J. Littleboy wrote:
"otter" wrote: I didn't take it, but here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...s/19campb.html Here's some music that goes with the pictu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFDiuY7yE4 And here's a picture that goes with that music: http://www.pbase.com/davidjl/image/119895297/large (But it's off topic for this thread. Sorry. Sue me.) I don't see that as "off topic" for the mandate, actually. -- "Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." -Samuel Clemens. |
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