Sitaram
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Peter: I bought On the Road yesterday. Do you like it?
Sitaram: To be honest, I never read it.
Peter: Oh really! Not into the Beats?
Sitaram: I have nothing against it. I am sure it is important. Just, so many books, so little time.
Peter: What are you up to?
Sitaram: I wrote a story called "Barbershop Quartets".... a work in progress. You should read it. It is humorous and also slightly sexual in content
http://thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7961
Peter: I am reading it now. Pretty funny!
Sitaram: Thanks. Most of it is the gospel truth... word for word.
That kid REALLY was named Harold Feldman. And I really DID eat
baloney with potato chips every day for 6 years of school.
And my dad REALLY did get sent to talk to me, and ALL HE SAID was
"well, you don’t pee in the woman". I'm not kidding
Peter: That was the best part of the story!
Sitaram: And I really did hang from a tree branch and have my first
thrill when I was age 5.
Peter: Have you read anything by Henry James?
Sitaram: Daisy Miller. In high school.
Peter: Good?
Sitaram: I liked it back them.... it was 40 years ago.... there were
other things I remember liking more... but sure, it was good.
I guess Camus, The Stranger was exciting... different, back then. I was
crazy about Lawrence Durrell Alexandrian Quartet. I read all of
Hemingway's short stories. I loved The Old man and the Sea the book
and the movie with Spencer Tracy.
Peter: When I'm done with Tropic of Cancer I'm going to read On the
Road. And then I don’t know what.
Sitaram: I remember really liking Swann's Way by Proust. But, I don’t
remember so very much about it... from 40 years ago. Though I
started re-reading it this year
Peter: I've heard that Proust is difficult.
Sitaram: It depends on where you are at, what you desire, and how
you read...and why you read. I tend to read at the sentence and paragraph level. I immerse myself in one page or two pages. There are paragraphs or
several pages that form a unit, an inspiration, that stand together. I call it a
mandala.
Peter: That’s the way Tropic of Cancer is. He makes one huge sermon
based on an experience.
Sitaram: Such mandalas come to us gradually, day by day, as
inspirations. Then our great labor is to weave them together into
a mosaic that is a cohesive whole.
Sitaram: To be honest, I never read it.
Peter: Oh really! Not into the Beats?
Sitaram: I have nothing against it. I am sure it is important. Just, so many books, so little time.
Peter: What are you up to?
Sitaram: I wrote a story called "Barbershop Quartets".... a work in progress. You should read it. It is humorous and also slightly sexual in content
http://thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7961
Peter: I am reading it now. Pretty funny!
Sitaram: Thanks. Most of it is the gospel truth... word for word.
That kid REALLY was named Harold Feldman. And I really DID eat
baloney with potato chips every day for 6 years of school.
And my dad REALLY did get sent to talk to me, and ALL HE SAID was
"well, you don’t pee in the woman". I'm not kidding
Peter: That was the best part of the story!
Sitaram: And I really did hang from a tree branch and have my first
thrill when I was age 5.
Peter: Have you read anything by Henry James?
Sitaram: Daisy Miller. In high school.
Peter: Good?
Sitaram: I liked it back them.... it was 40 years ago.... there were
other things I remember liking more... but sure, it was good.
I guess Camus, The Stranger was exciting... different, back then. I was
crazy about Lawrence Durrell Alexandrian Quartet. I read all of
Hemingway's short stories. I loved The Old man and the Sea the book
and the movie with Spencer Tracy.
Peter: When I'm done with Tropic of Cancer I'm going to read On the
Road. And then I don’t know what.
Sitaram: I remember really liking Swann's Way by Proust. But, I don’t
remember so very much about it... from 40 years ago. Though I
started re-reading it this year
Peter: I've heard that Proust is difficult.
Sitaram: It depends on where you are at, what you desire, and how
you read...and why you read. I tend to read at the sentence and paragraph level. I immerse myself in one page or two pages. There are paragraphs or
several pages that form a unit, an inspiration, that stand together. I call it a
mandala.
Peter: That’s the way Tropic of Cancer is. He makes one huge sermon
based on an experience.
Sitaram: Such mandalas come to us gradually, day by day, as
inspirations. Then our great labor is to weave them together into
a mosaic that is a cohesive whole.
