(TV) Voracious Reader?

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

>From the crazy number of interviews I've read over the 
years, I actually know about a fair amount of stuff he 
read, but this info is primarially on his later (middle?) 
period, 1979-1990.  

I would guess he was reading along with Hell lots of 
poetry, maybe Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine---yes TV claims 
he chose the name not because of the poet, but because 
he liked the sound of the name---and the Beats[?]. 
Also, maybe Blake (inspiration for LJJ?). 

A source (female) told me he read a wide variety of 
stuff back then (maybe now too?), which makes sense 
since he worked at The Strand for awhile. She said he 
bought a book on orthinology his reading of which inspired: 
 
" ... then you leap 
up about a hundred feet 
yet you're in so deep 
you could write the Book. 
Chirp chirp the birds 
they're giving you the words ..."

	Leo







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Subject: (TV) Tom Verlaine!


                                     Who was Verlaine reading, in those early 
Television days. 
                                     From the days with Richard Hell up 
Marquee Moon, Adventure?
                                            (Poetry, Fiction, etc.)
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