Hard 2 bee-leave


I'm gonna start a regular post ... maybe weekly ...  its hard to believe ... hard to believe what people say and do or don't say or don't do or know. it hits me hard more and more lately, almost daily. 

the other evening in my playwrights group, a full grown grown up man, round 40 I'd say ... I ask him if he's ever read Portnoys Complaint ... he says no ... he's never heard of it and he's never heard of Philip Roth  ... and this is an educated, city guy actor who thinks he knows what he's doing and whats been going on.  I tell him he's written 30 books or so ... and he's maybe/arguably the pre-eminent American novelist of the last gone century ... lots of movies made from his work ... up there with Updike and Bellows re: the novel king of kings. might be me ... but hard to believe. 

I was in the country with friends one weekend a long, long time ago and With a Little Help From My Friends came on the radio.  and a guy said wow, that's kinda cool. Who is it?  One of us said ... ever hear of the Beatles. He tossed back ... who? And I said to the gang ... you gotta think there was some kind of  deprogramming involved .

like that. 


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