THE TROPIC OF CANCER NEEDS A GOAT
Considering the recent UK blurbs on the South Bank Show I can only weep gently in strong anger.
I come to praise "Rupert" and to bury him. Such was Dennis Potter in the 1990s. Bragg let it be and Potter was allowed to remain and re-enter into this TV cultural history.
You see Culture Ways can still remain difficult but yet worthwhile.
Didn't it have Henry Miller? He was an old goat alright.
ReplyDeleteOh you are SO SEXY!
ReplyDeleteThundering old bore he was, like all those new-wave American scribblers. William Burroughs - ugh! Who'd have wanted a naked lunch - or a naked anything - with him? Even worse, Hubert Selby Jnr. One of the worst chores I ever had was reading and re-reading his ghastly tome "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in order to help his publishers, who were friends of mine, to cobble together a posse of defence witnesses when they were tried because of it under the Obscene Publications Act.
ReplyDeleteWhat utter trash! I do so sympathise with Voltaire's attitude that I loathe what you write but will defend to the death your write to publish.
But I would rather it hadn't involved all that tedium. I still grit my teeth when I look at the damn thing on my bookshelf.