You mean Ed Dorn, I presume, Robin.
Though I'm rather fond of King's version too.
Thanks, Jon, for those extracts. Contra Dave, I like them rather a
lot. And Pound's misunderstandings, like Kleist's of Hegel, were among
those great creative mistakes that enliven the culture.
xA
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Robin Hamilton
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> All very tongue in cheek, as I know you realise, Rob, but the man with
>> no name and the Cantos, check that out!
>>
>> Gunslinger
>>
>> (!!)
>
> Yikes!!! You have more than a serious point here.
>
> But ...
>
> Do you mean Stephen King or Olsen?
>
> How the friggin Dark Tower ended up franchised to Stephen King rather than
> Olsen's Gunslinger, rather than Olsen himself, +I+ don't know.
>
> But the Ultimate Dark Tower Text (as I'm sure you know) was a McNeice Radio4
> play.
>
> {Lord, ever so long ago, I had a Strange Phone Conversation with my Darling
> Only Son, from the middle of Glenville Ward in Leicester, as to which
> particular Clint Eastwood movie shadowed whichever Kurosawa.
>
> Rashomon Gates didn't even figure.
>
> R.}
>
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