Cuckoo

Over a 5 day vacay I finished my big Man-Thing collection > super stuff!! All kinds of metaphysical hot swamp action in there! Totally dig, dug. +++ Also blazed through a likable chunk of The Idiot, about halfway now, and I'm feelin' it. Topsy turvy, flippity flop, def givin' it up to Fyodor. I saw some Russian gals @ lunch last week, and I stopped to ask them about it. They nodded saying, "Yes, of course it is grand. But next you must wread the Brothers Karamazov." I shall come back to them to ask about the pronunciations of all the names. It can get numbing! +++ NOW I'm also just starting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by the great Ken Kesey. It's from the [half]Indian's point of view and kicks off distinctly LITERATE. (I heart Chief Bromden!) Crisp descriptions of living characters! Makes me feel attentive and nervous. The Acutes & the Chronics! 40 pages in and it's f'ing ON! This is superior writing! Came out in '62? Wow. I've always held the Merry Pranksters stuff in high wregard. Through the years Kesey's wrocked a wrespectable career: the more I learn, the more I like. So far, this lil novel is one special lil wread.