Re: a bit more RAT "talking about Wellman"

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>MITCHELL,
>
>"Terminal Hip"  by Mac?  who is the Publisher?  I would love to read 
>what became of Cellophane.
>
>that type of language is called "hip"???  I did not know this.  It 
>just made sense to me... the rhythms... jumble of words taken from 
>paper to mind to voice to air to ear... ahhhh
>
>I'm new to this area (Baltimore) and still feel so lost.  I don't 
>even know where the used bookstores are.  I need to take the time to 
>look up hmmmm... now I forget his name, and the theatre/group he is 
>associated with.




  Hi Catherine.
  Welcome to our unwieldy tribe:)

The Book I think you are searching for is called THE BAD INFINITY , 
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  In his  intro, Mac 
calls it a "trip through the medium of Bad Language. " ,In a recent 
American Theatre interview, he explains that when he wrote TERMINAL 
HIP, he was  under  a great deal of pressure- comiisions, articles, 
teaching and the like. To  relieve the stress, he set aside two hours 
a day  (morningss) to write as badly as he possibly could. After a 
few wees of this he began to notice patterns in the bad writing. From 
these patterns sprung TERMINAL HIP.


--Brad