Queer Beats
Have been reading a book I ordered - Queer Beats. About homosexuality and the Beat movement. YIKES - I almost wish I hadn't ordered it now. As much as I love the beat movement and some of the work. What a bunch of just total whack jobs.
You'd like to think the work of your literary heroes comes from them "getting it" them really seeing the word the way it is. However, this book makes it seem like the whole beat movement revolved around sexual confusion, unrequited love, and a miriad of every changing and unresolved love triangles.
I didn't know just how much the Beat movement was haunted by tragedy. Of course there was William B's poor wife getting shot in the William Tell routine, but there's a whole cast of secondary characters who killed themselves, were institutionalized, or were murdered.
Now I'm going to have to go back and reread some of favorite pieces in a new light.
I have this theory that sometimes it doesn't pay to know your heroes too well, cause they never live up to your expectations.
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