Postcards From Ed: Dispatches and Salvos From an American Iconoclast.
Also in this article, a quote, from a 1954 Abbey journal, about Texas: "Why pick on Texas? Because it typifies, concentrates and exaggerates most everything that is rotten in America: it's vulgar -- not only cultureless but anti-cultural; it's rich in a brazen, vulgar, graceless way; it combines the bigotry and sheer animal ignorance of the Old South with the aggressive, ruthless, bustling, dollar-crazy brutality of the Yankee East and then attempts to hide this ugliness under a facade of mock-western play clothes stolen from a way of life that was crushed by Texanism over half a century ago. The trouble with Texas: it's ugly, noisy, mean-spirited, mediocre and false."
Damn.
2 comments:
Haven't read "Up the River," Rocket. Interesting that in this review, the author pointed out that 1. people from the West know of and like Abbey way more than people from the East do and 2. people in general either love or hate him. These two comments just confirmed both hypotheses.
I neither hate nor love him.
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