{"id":9411,"date":"2012-08-28T16:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/lanzetta-responds-re-kerouac\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:39:48","slug":"lanzetta-responds-re-kerouac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/lanzetta-responds-re-kerouac\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanzetta Responds re: Kerouac"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is Danny Lanzetta. I saw your blog posting<\/a> in response to my piece<\/a> in the Huffington Post<\/em> last week, "In Defense of Jack Kerouac…" Thanks for reading.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In your reaction, you wrote of my link to that famous OTR <\/em>passage<\/a>: "Lanzetta seems to be suggesting that this is a particularly bad specimen of  Kerouac's scrivening."<\/span><\/div>\n
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I went back and looked at the passage in question. Your reading of it could not be more correct. That is absolutely what I wrote. However, it is not what I meant. My point was supposed to be that Kerouac's "madness" sometimes led to the most beautiful and ecstatic writing one could ever read (thus, the link), while at other times it led to the mess that became his personal life (such as his terrible treatment of his daughter, Jan). After countless proofreadings and going through my piece with a fine-toothed comb, I simply missed the way that sentence read. A simple adjective, appropriately placed, could've saved me. Alas, I missed it. I apologize for the confusion.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I'd be grateful if you could pass along my apologies to your readers. Luckily, it was only a case of bad writing (my own) and not what would be an egregious denouncement of one of the most beautiful sentences ever put to paper.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Thanks again.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Well, Danny, there is certainly no need to apologize.  If you had meant that the famous OTR passage was the sort of purple prose <\/a>an over-excited sophomore might write, that would have been a defensible claim.  But I am glad that is not what you meant.  In any case, it is very easy for a writer to fail to say what he means.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I must say I was very impressed at your willingness to accept criticism. <\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Danny Lanzetta. I saw your blog posting in response to my piece in the Huffington Post last week, "In Defense of Jack Kerouac…" Thanks for reading.   In your reaction, you wrote of my link to that famous OTR passage: "Lanzetta seems to be suggesting that this is a particularly bad specimen of  … Continue reading “Lanzetta Responds re: Kerouac”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}