Thanks, Anyone know if this was ever published in full? Would be interesting to read more about her and the 'fancy bum'. Also interesting she says she went to 'Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived', so she was seeking out the fringe to hang out with from the start. I think she got more than she bargained for.
I'd like to read it too. She actually says bad stuff about CM. Did she finally see the light? Or is she just saying what she thinks people want to hear? There is an old news clip of Atkins and a reporter asked her what she has to say and she replied Whatever you wanted to hear.
[quote author=creepycrawler link=topic=4327.msg37230#msg37230 date=1250282971] Thanks, Anyone know if this was ever published in full? Would be interesting to read more about her and the 'fancy bum'. Also interesting she says she went to 'Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived', so she was seeking out the fringe to hang out with from the start. I think she got more than she bargained for. [/quote] Isnt Venice where the bikers hung out?
[quote author=catscradle77 link=topic=4327.msg37244#msg37244 date=1250293942] [quote author=creepycrawler link=topic=4327.msg37230#msg37230 date=1250282971] Thanks, Anyone know if this was ever published in full? Would be interesting to read more about her and the 'fancy bum'. Also interesting she says she went to 'Venice, where I remembered beatniks lived', so she was seeking out the fringe to hang out with from the start. I think she got more than she bargained for. [/quote] Isnt Venice where the bikers hung out? [/quote] Yep and where Zero was shot too.
What leaps out is the precariousness of turning points, and that Fromme was once a typical teen. Before association with a wicked person, one only empowered by skunk strength female attracting pheromones, supersized hallucinogenic (that made her love trees over humnoty) and bad folk song nights focussed on politics of envy flipped her lid, culminating in the wearing of nun robes at cemetaries and other wack day job replacements. Her parents must have been long suffering, let's hope that other siblings escaped the 60's intact and balanced the scales giving them some joy. It seems she was a key CM grandiosity feeder in her host / parasite association-ship with CM. I don't use word relationship in describing interpersonal dynamics with psychopaths, as despite appearances they don't "relate" they only associate. So would TLB have happened without her?
Actually, according to her biography (Squeaky: The Life and Times Of Lynette Alice Fromme by Jess Bravin) she had a pretty messed-up relationship with her parents long before she ever met Manson. Her father in particular seems to have been a very dark cloud on her horizon. The book implies that he molested her though this is never explicitly stated. Whatever the case, I dunno that "typical teen" is quite the right description...
