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hoochmonkey9 retweeted this the other day, and I thought it was worth posing here.
Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle
Apparently Webb published many different versions of a Kerouac poem in Outsider 2, even after Kerouac told him not to change anything...
Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle
Apparently Webb published many different versions of a Kerouac poem in Outsider 2, even after Kerouac told him not to change anything...
Over the following couple of weeks, I was able to monitor the poem in twenty different copies of The Outsider #2. Four more variant lines were discovered in the process, and the occurrence of each was as follows:
"... of Ciardian poetry" (4)
"... of civilized poetry" (4)
"... of chamber poetry" (4)
"... of Beatnik poetry" (4)
"... of drawing room poetry" (2)
"... of Ciardi poetry" (1)
"... of Chinese poetry" (1)
That's pretty incredible.