Free At Last

[poliphilo]

I've just read Kurt Vonnegut's Man Without a Country (it took me about an hour) and it's a lot like Byron's Don Juan- which I'm part way through.   In both of them you've got a famous writer who's nearing the end of his life (Did Byron know this? Yes, I think he did) and he's cutting loose and turning cartwheels and if the reader doesn't like it s/he can go sulk.  The Vonnegut is not much more than a doodle and Don Juan is a masterpiece but both have about them this feeling that school's out.

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YO DAD IM AT WORK

[(Anonymous)]

HEY DAD ITS JOE AND IM AT WORK SO DON,T WRITE BACK. HOPE YOUR DAY WAS PEACHY AND THAT YOU HAD FOUNTAINOUS AMOUNTS OF FUN. SEND AILZ MY LOVE AND I SHOULD SEE YOU TWO MOTHEWR FUCKERS LATER SO LOTS OF LOVE YOUR COOL, TRENDY KICK ASS SON .

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

OMG, I thought I was the only one who called her parents mother fuckers! In a loving way, of COURSE! Like I was saying, it's all in how we instill respect! ;)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

S'right!

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

Wow. Now I wanna read them! But I'm stuck on a self-help book by a woman who fancies herself a poet and is sooo verbose I can't get throughhhhh it and I refuse to leave it unfinished and violate my new year's resolution to finish everything I start! Ughhh!!!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's a very bad New Year's Resolution. You should break it forthwith

[besideserato.livejournal.com]

No, no, it's really important. It's helping me keep focused on my writing and career choices and my educational goals... it's good! I just need to finish this damn book!