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	Ken Kesey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kesey believed that these patients were not insane, but that society had pushed them out because they did not fit the conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave.
		When the publication of his second novel Sometimes a Great Notion in 1964 required his presence in New York, Kesey, Neal Cassady, and others in a group of friends they called the "Merry Pranksters" took a cross-country trip in a school bus nicknamed Furthur.
		Sometimes a Great Notion was made into a 1971 film starring Paul Newman and was nominated for two Academy Awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Kesey (885 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sometimes a Great Notion: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		Sometimes a Great Notion is a 1971 film with Richard Jaeckel[For more, click on this link].
		It was adapted from a novel of the same name by Ken Kesey Ken Kesey quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sometimes_a_great_notion.htm (164 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion
		If you are waiting for the lightning bolt of a great idea -- or even a good idea -- before truly committing yourself to building your company, you may be waiting for a long time.
		Even in cases in which the founders started out with an idea, it seldom was a great idea and often turned out to be a bad one.
		But a vital great company can never be obsolete if it has the organizational ability to continually evolve beyond existing product life cycles.
	www.inc.com /magazine/19930701/3645.html (1319 words)

	upstatebeat.com: Shannon's Law: Sometimes a Great Notion
		Sometimes I live in the country, Sometimes I live in the town.
		Sometimes a great notion like that Greenville County Council resolution condemning homosexuality is better left undone.
		Sometimes the events of a given week come together in such a way that you roll into the weekend in a completely different frame of mind than you could have imagined only a few short days before.
	www.metrobeat.net /gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid:1066 (922 words)

	Sometimes a great notion
		Ken Kesey, author of Sometimes a Great Notion, understood that society persecutes its greatest sons and daughters and kills off their ideas.
		Sometimes a great idea or human being comes along.
		Ken Kesey (author of Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) knew all about society's tendency to visit reverse-natural selection upon its betters.
	www.itweb.co.za /sections/columnists/dotcolumn/alberts041021.asp?O=FPC (1068 words)

	The Oregonian
		The movie of "Sometimes a Great Notion," which Kesey said was the best thing he ever wrote, also was filmed in Oregon, but it was Kesey's 1964 trip with a group of friends who called themselves the Merry Pranksters that made him a symbol of the free-spirited '60s.
		Kesey was proud of his first novel but always felt that "Sometimes a Great Notion" -- the story of an independent logging family in conflict -- was much better.
		He often said he turned his life into art after "Sometimes a Great Notion" and said he was not interested in pursuing a career as a novelist.
	www.dropbass.net /news_updates/2001/ken_kesey/oregonian.html (1830 words)

	Bookselling This Week: Readin’ in the Rain -- A Great Notion for Eugene, Oregon
		Readin’ in the Rain -- A Great Notion for Eugene, Oregon
		Spurred in part by news of the One Book, One Chicago program, Landfield and others envisioned a city-wide project mobilized by reading Sometimes a Great Notion, with its perspectives on community and individual resiliency tied to the spirit and history of the Pacific Northwest, as a fitting acknowledgment of Kesey’s legacy.
		As Connie Bennett, library services director for the Eugene Public Library, notes in her open letter to the community, "One of the large themes in Sometimes a Great Notion is the importance and uniqueness of the individual.
	news.bookweb.org /news/265.html (710 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey at Kernville, Oregon
		Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey at Kernville, Oregon
		"Sometimes a Great Notion" house on the Siletz River at
		Kesey is best known for two novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, both of which are routinely studied in classrooms across the country and are frequently to be found on favorite book lists.
	www.ocnsignal.com /kesey.htm (1091 words)

	Comments on 12215 \| MetaFilter
		Cuckoo's Nest is his best known, thanks to Michael Douglass and Jack Nicholson (not to mention a recent stage version with Gary Sinise), but if we're talking about his "masterpiece," let's not forget Sometimes a Great Notion -- an epic tale of an outsider family in the north woods.
		It was, kids, an advert for what drugs can do to destroy great brains (or should that be what brains can do to destroy great drugs...?) Overlong, rambling, disorganised, somewhat pointless and certainly obnoxious and self-serving.
		I've read "Sometimes a Great Notion" and thought it was a fairly unexceptional novel, very much in line with other "literary bestellers" of its time.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/12215 (1887 words)

	Issue of July 21, 2004
		Reading your question reminded me (as those emanating from ESL classes often do) of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns line "O wad some Power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us!" (meaning "It would be nice to be able see ourselves through the eyes of other people").
		But at that time country life was widely romanticized, considered a simpler, purer existence, and poets like Robert Greene began to use "swain" in the sense of "gallant lover" in their pastoral fantasies.
		There are a number of theories about "tickety-boo" (also sometimes spelled "ticketty-boo" and "tiggity-boo") meaning "all in order, correct, satisfactory." The phrase seems to have first appeared around 1939, although slang etymologist Eric Partridge asserted that it dates to the early 1920s.
	www.word-detective.com /072104.html (6021 words)

	I Am The Rain King: Sometimes a Great Notion
		Book #55 of my 2005 reading list was Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.
		This was a stunningly good novel and definitely earns a spot as one of the better books (perhaps the best?) I've read this year.
		Kesey masterfully tells his story of the Stampers, an Oregon based logging family, by weaving between the voices of each of his characters sometimes shifting perspective within a paragraph or even within a sentence.
	jamieca.blogspot.com /2005/12/sometimes-great-notion.html (313 words)

	Ken Kesey Interview
		With Sometimes A Great Notion I was able to work 20 or 30 hours at a whack and I had all this stuff in my mind.
		Kesey had proven to the literary establishment that he was a master writer with Cuckoo's Nestÿand then proved that he could "best" himself with Great Notion.
		We don't want to think of the bad stuff that's going to happen to us, but it's life and we need to be able to reach our arms around it and say, 'Hey, it's awful, and it's beautiful and I love it.' People like Ginsberg, he teaches you to do that.
	www.ulster.net /~shady/keezintv.html (1594 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion - The Silver Tabby
		Whether they will have good color as an adult can be determined as soon as they are born.
		Sometimes one has a very light pattern (almost blue looking) which darkens as it matures and that one may ultimately have the best color.
		Sometimes the best kitten in the litter will be a silver tabby LH.
	www.geocities.com /Exotic_Breeders/notion.htm (1138 words)

	filter magazine - features
		Sometimes A Great Notion was the eagerly anticipated follow up.
		Maybe even great first and second records and then they just don’t know what to do with themselves.
		There’s a lot of bands, though, that don’t start out so great and then they hit their stride and they just keep going and going.
	www.filter-mag.com /features/interior.57.html (1729 words)

	Salon.com People \| Appreciation: Ken Kesey
		For it is that very East-West split that fuels "Notion." The story centers on a rivalry between two half-brothers -- one college-educated and sophisticated, the other defined by native wit and instinct -- fighting over the same woman.
		As Kesey told an interviewer at the time, "The two Stamper brothers in the novel are each one of the ways I think I am." And for all its iconic status, "Cuckoo's Nest" looks a little stiff and one-dimensional these days: McMurphy's martyrdom is too obvious and symbolic, as is Big Nurse's smiling malice.
		"Notion," for all its baggy patches and unfinished jazz riffs, has the feel of real life -- the kind that sticks its thumb in your eye.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/11/16/kesey_apprec (717 words)

	Amazon.com: Sometimes a Great Notion: Books: Ken Kesey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although it was filmed with an great cast (Henry Fonda, Paul Newman) it never gained the reputation that its inferior sibling achieved.
		May it well survive the journey, and may it well navigate its course, just as the Stampers do, through a deep understanding, love and appreciation for what it means to be an individual as well as a family member in contemporary American life, learning along the way.
		Ken Kesey never disappoints, but he is sometimes hard to keep up with as he chuckles his way ahead of us into the stormy rapids of life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140045295?v=glance (2021 words)

	Gasoline Hobo
		Is he bending his back to a work of philosophy, a notion that will one day be regarded as highly as those of Kierkegaard or Schopenhauer?
		Or maybe he's working on a romance novel, stuffed to the brim with sweaty heaving bosoms and virile wealthy young people being carried away by hormones and purple prose.
		Sometimes it's enough to just be a warm body in the room.
	www.gasolinehobo.com (1195 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "The Merry Prankster, Ken Kesey, died this morning"
		Ken Kesey, author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" and subject of Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" died this morning of liver disease in Eugene, Oregon, according to KIRO-TV (Seattle.
		"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic.
		He said to me, "You should read Sometimes a Great Notion", that is a much better book." I still haven't read this one (yet).
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID5/8686.html (704 words)

	:: :: :: Charlotte Sometime:: :: :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Charlotte Sometimes" is the best of the films I've seen so far at the Hawaii festival, which has emerged as a premiere showcase for films of the Pacific Rim.
		Eric Byler told me he still doesn't have a distributor for "Charlotte Sometimes," perhaps because it is both Asian American and, well, seriously good.
		Films like "Charlotte Sometimes" and Justin Lin's Sundance hit "Better Luck Tomorrow," also showing here, show Asian-American characters who do not "represent their community" or project a "positive image" or do anything else except what characters in all good movies do: be themselves, in a way that is fascinating and illuminating.
	www.charlottesometimesthemovie.com /ebert.html (799 words)

	Kalilily Time: Sometimes a great notion... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A while ago I had the notion that I should take a free-lance writing job offered me by a former colleague.
		Well, the notion is now a reality, and tomorrow I start using parts of my brain I haven't used for the past two years.
		If I don't show up here too often for a while, it's just that all of my best words are going to earn me fortune instead of fame.
	www.kalilily.net /weblog/03/04/23/205109.html (267 words)

	San Francisco Chronicle
		Ken Kesey, whose exuberant novels "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" championed individualism under attack from the forces of conformity, died yesterday morning of complications from liver cancer at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, Ore. He was 66.
		" 'Sometimes a Great Notion' is one of the great, great books written by an American, hands down," Ford said.
		Kesey moved back to Oregon to research and write 1964's "Sometimes a Great Notion," the story of an outsized logging clan and their battles with labor and among themselves.
	www.dropbass.net /news_updates/2001/ken_kesey/sf_chronicle.html (871 words)

	Lane Community College Library - Inklings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Author Ken Kesey's novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion," was being adapted to the screen and filmed along the Siletz River and parts of the Central Oregon Coast.
		Or maybe the answer is not in an entire picture, but in snapshots of smaller magical happenings that come to a person quickly, shaking their spirits, quickening their pulses, and connecting them with something, that for a burning instant, is greater than they are.
		While working on "Sometimes A Great Notion," my dad said he had "one, true, shining moment." And, fortunately, it's a scene that remains in the movie, a brief image I've watched over and over.
	www.lanecc.edu /library/inklings/bear/bear1.htm (2892 words)

	FA:: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, 1977 TPB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FA:: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, 1977 TPB
		Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Ken Kesey's friend Ken Babbs once remarked, "A man should have the right to be as big as he feels it's in him to be." So taken was Kesey with Babbs's comment that he quoted it in Sometimes a Great Notion.
		Babbs's observation reveals the novel's primary social concern: that self-reliance must not be destroyed by a collectivist force, in this case a logging union.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.books/messages/70660.html (209 words)

	World Mining Equipment: Sometimes a great notion: Bruce Sheets looks to the longwall future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sometimes a great notion: Bruce Sheets looks to the longwall future
		Pick up greats work of literature and you'll see authors often address the subject of improving one's lot with fervour.
		A passage from Ken Kesey's 1964 classic, Sometimes A Great Notion, illustrates this point to perfection.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go1557/is_200412/ai_n9767396 (191 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion - Buyer's Guides and Special Reports - Executive Education - CFO.com
		Sometimes a Great Notion - Buyer's Guides and Special Reports - Executive Education - CFO.com
		Every change initiative from reengineering on has set as its ultimate goal the notion that finance staffers would become more valued and play a more strategic role in operations.
		And you can't talk about a total transformation of finance without an investment in people." For finance, the central theme of the 1990s has been transformation.
	www.cfo.com /article.cfm/2990388/c_3061766 (692 words)

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		People need to let out their true feelings sometimes, and Chief was made as a character that everyone could talk to and not worry about the consequences.
		Kesey once again did a great job connecting with the reader, and he made the reader feel as though we deeply hurt when she felt pain.
		K esey was a great author of many qualities, but the one quality that stands out above all is the ability of his to portray such deep emotions and feelings.
	www.mccallie.org /CLatham/Importeddocuments/Groves-Kesey.doc (4480 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion
		Apparently written during the Harold Ballard ownership era, and specifically the time of the Maple Leafs’ great decline in the early to mid-1980s, Strecker’s observation that "Men are like/ the Toronto/ Maple Leafs:/ they lose,/ they keep/ selling out"(75), gains some metaphorical heft from knowledge of the Leafs at that moment.
		The Tragically Hip’s "Fifty Mission Cap," a miniature epic about dead Leafs great Bill Barilko, becomes skeletal on the page when stripped of lead singer Gord Downey’s melodramatic vocals and the angular instrumentation of the piece.
		Jane Siberry’s "Hockey" fares little better, for Siberry’s elliptical lyrics rely in part for effect upon her ethereal voice and the multilayered soundscapes and harmonies of much of her work.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol40/stover.htm (1784 words)

	Sometimes A Great Notion
		Bingley explained to her that the dinner invitation had originally been extended to the Crenshaws and Miss Bennet and that he and Miss Bingley were later additions to the party.
		Elizabeth shook her head as if to reject the notion, blew out the candle on her nightstand and crawled under the layers of quilts piled atop her bed.
		From this point, however, the penmanship was careless, written in a manner that bespoke great agitation.
	darcy.gatefiction.com /judylynne/sagn2.html (15454 words)

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