Post by andreajacobs80 on Aug 2, 2019 11:44:30 GMT -5
Stan Durkee is among those who remember Morrison for his intelligence, his literary brilliance and his enigmatic personality. "Intellectually, Jim was head and shoulders above all the rest of us - he read every book you could imagine," he said. "He inspired me." Durkee said he and Morrison used to go to book stores in Washington to look for works of beat generation authors who intrigued him.
Durkee remembers being in an English class with Morrison while studying James Joyce's Ulysses. "Even the teacher was learning from Morrison's interpretationn of the work." Durkee said, "We all were ... He was sort of an intellectual leader." However, Durkee said, "Nobody really understood Morrison (as a person). He was detached, creative ... Few, if any, people in our class were really close to him."