Clay Brown’s Reviews > Francis Bacon: Revelations > Status Update

Ah, it is close to over and I must admit that I have been transfixed by this book of Bacon. Shake and Bake I would say! Can’t wait for the movie about FB. Make sure to skimp on the gay sex thing! Wouldn’t want to show a Bacon in bed! His Kismet keepers were a mix of like kinds. All UK toughs with roguish features. About 3 or 4 of them all very interesting individuals. Lots of ‘cat’ fights. gonna mrs!

Dense but amazingly interesting is Master Artist Francis Bacon. I found myself surprised that Bacon was in Tangiers in its heyday. With Burroughs and Ginsberg! The ‘girls’ were really in their element coming a 100 years after Rimbaud had arrived! Seems the 3 titans were great friends! Most amazing. A must read, I would say for anyone who has an interest! Bacon! Has never sizzled like this!

I still haven’t got much of a ‘feel’ for Bacon! He is older now in his 30’s but from a perspective of isolation he kept to himself it seems. Although he parties constantly and ‘goes out’ to make merry with the usual suspects. The famous sorts of the day. But he doesn’t join in, in the usual way. He focuses finally on what matters most MONEY!

The beginning 2 to 4 Chapters is the usual slow going. About the ‘old man’ and ‘mother’ as the domineering father and dish rag mommy! Francis hardly gets a word in edgewise. Starting Over begins the more Sexual and Adult Bacon. Bacon was Irish. That is the real controversy. An Atheist through and through. Can’t admit it is all. In the work though. In The Work! Bacon does usually Fry nicely!