RIchard Farina

>>7704879
I read that a couple of months ago. It was fun but the very definition of a period piece. He might've been a more significant author if he'd lived longer, but he died before he put out anything that great.

nobody talks about farina without talking about pynchon

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I love Farina!

Celebrations for a Grey Day and Reflections in a Crystal Wind are great albums, he even did the whole electric folk thing before Dylan on Reno Nevada!

His writing is great too. I read Been Down So Long often, (the film sucks!) and the short stories and poetry of his I've managed a hold of have all been great. I'm sure he could have written an absolute masterpiece if he'd stuck around longer.

If you're a Farina fan I reccomend you read "Positively 4th Street: The Life and TImes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Farina". Very lovable guy with a real enthusiasm for life.

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>tfw farina lost his exemption and the monkey demon got the best of him

>>7705010
Just like Pappadopoulis.

great title but anything with the whiff of pynchon taints it as pleb lelsorandumXD shit to me.

>>7704879
Best title ever desu

>>7705029
pleb lelsoseriousDX detected.

>>7705024
I always read the ending as more of a kind of melancholy second chance.

Bump bump bump,
down the funny stairs.

Paps back on the road, vying never to lose his exemption again.

Bad-ass tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwRyodoPV4

>>7705052
The whole thing seemed like a late 50s-era send-up/pastiche of a Greek tragedy on a school campus, so I'd say there's no room for second chances.

>>7705111
Well not so much a second chance, - Paps is almost damned in the end, dips his foot in the pool of trust and a hand tries to pull him down to a watery grave - but an escape into exile. A second chance only in keeping ahead of his fate.