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Hiko_Kubo
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 Posted - 01/21/2005 : 22:24:48
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Hi everybody!
As far as I know, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire is such a nice book to read. It contains some quotes from Jeffers, Eliot, and so on. And Abbey's point of view is so close to the Inhumanism.
Abbey quotes one pharase from Jeffer's maybe most famous poem Hurt Hawks and he jokes, I'd kill a man than a snake....kinda Inhumanistic Joke. |
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Quercus
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 22:22:03
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I hadn't thought of that parallel. But now that I do, I realize Desert Solitaire is like much of Jeffers' work in another way: the landscape can't exist for the reader without going through a strongly developed narrator.
At times the character of this narrator is difficult, intense, or even objectionable (in the case of Abbey), but the reader has to get close---very close---to him to get the story.
Well that was my experience reading it anyway.
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rsa
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Posted - 08/01/2006 : 16:06:08
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I havent read Desert Solitaire, but I will. One doesnt often find a Jeffers reference but I found Jeffers through one. In, of all places, a Hunter Thompson book. Having read the imbedded "Be Angry At The Sun" in Fear and Loathing: not sure any longer if it was Las Vegas or Campaign Trail..suspect the latter...I sought Jeffers out and still read him religiously.
Knomh
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Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire
