![]() Wednesdays, his day off, he sits around with an elderly degenerate watching playgrounds through binoculars. Blight is a parody of bizarre degeneracy and deformity he spends his time cutting out nudes from magazines and reading paperbacks that seem straight from Olympia Press- girls being whipped and so on. nightclerk at the Travelers Hotel in murky San Francisco. The book resembles the ""Nighttown"" episode in Ulysses or Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. ![]() ![]() A gangrenous novel loaded with Jungle rot and athletic foot-fetishists, The Nightclerk is pretty stunning (it has already won the $10,000 Formentor prize awarded most recently to Gisela Elsner's The Giant Dwarfs.) It is a Half-Naked Lunch, written on liquid mariJuana, propelled by LSD and sung to a morphine moon. This is Grove's Xtra-Special Krazy Book for Fall. ![]()
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