[UA] The Wicked

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

At 09:12 PM 02/01/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>Gregory Paul Stolze wrote:
>
>> At 03:18 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>> >It was my guess that Dirk was based on Burroughs.  He's a bit nutty.  He
>> >engages in hardcore mind-altering, both recreationally and with
purpose.  He
>> >is headquartered in the midwest.  He is directly responsible for his
wife's
>> >death.
>>
>> Did we ever establish that?
>
>    Yeah. He was definitely responsible. Whether it was an accident or
not, he
>struggled with the responsibility all his life. I see him as a hundred and
eighty
>degrees away from DA, though. Burroughs didn't want help. It would be a
mistake
>to think of him as a tragic drug figure. He was cut from a different cloth.

Whoops!  I meant, "Did we ever establish that DIRK killed his wife?"  

>    Which is not to say that if you played DA as Burroughs, you'd have a bad
>game. It's a good angle. It's just not the way I ever saw DA. I see him as
>cheaper and sleazier, regardless of talent. More of a Bukowsky than a
Burroughs.
>I used to play him as sort of a weird, miscast Humphrey Bogart as
Hemingway. He's
>degenerated into kind of a Robert Blake imitating Dennis Hopper playing
Steinbeck
>in a casino dinner theater in Biloxi MS.

I really like the Prof. Herbert illustrations of Allen as this bald, ugly,
mean-looking wreck.  I always imagined him as one of those guys with the
peculiar charm of compelte honesty and self-knowledge.  "Yeah, I'm a
drunken old fucko.  But at least I KNOW who I am.  Can you say the same
thing?"  He's got the charm of guys who are willing to genially doubt
everything, even himself.  He seems scarred, harmless and burnt-out.  

Two of those are 100% right, and the other is right at least 50% of the
time...

-G.
[F]or heaven's sake stop bugging her about all these erotic tactics like
three-ways.
We have some of those lamps in our house, and they're not as exciting as
you might think.
		-Garrison Keillor

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