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April 25, 2016
The Medium Is the Message, 50 Years Later
He had a thing for clip-on neckties. He once said LSD was the lazy man’s form of Finnegans Wake. When deciding whether a book was worth reading, he’d flip through its table of contents then skip ahead to page 69. If page 69 offered no insight, he’d put the book down and move onto the next. In a 1951 letter to Ezra Pound, he described himself as an “intellectual thug.”
- — Pacific Standard
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 25, 2016 6:48 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Yup. We were all fans long ago.
Posted by: pbird at April 26, 2016 10:01 AM
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