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It fascinates me just to study how JK transformed reality into autobiographic fiction, he sure had a totally different literary fictional self in his novels, and if I was to write about my life, I'd do exactly the same, mythologize my life - all that about his brother Gerard for example is pure myth, as if the birds flew to Gerard's window as messangers of God, etc. - and what a view of his father... I'm glad I'll have more time to study next autumn, because I have a dream of writing about Kerouac in a way that pays the most attention on his art, only using his biographies when necessary; I got real mad when one journalist in a Finnish student paper was writing that his both parents, EVEN Memere, were alcoholics!! I tried to contact that bastard, but it was vain in July... he had been reading some latest biographies that I don't like when they study only his public drunken etc. life, wonder if they ever have read e.g. Tim Hunt's "Kerouac Crooked Road" or Hipkiss' study. - I think I'm going to try to translate some parts of Dr. Sax, and if I like it, I could try the whole novel, as we have a small publisher, Sammakko, for which a Finnish poet, Markus Jääskeläinen, just translated The Dharma Bums (I put the links about this on the Other Literary Sites board). - I admit I'm an amateur in literary theories, but we'll see when I have enough time-- (Anne/visions)