Gnossos "Paps" Pappadopoulis
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña. Parts campus novel and travelogue, the book was first published in 1966 and is largely based on Fariña's college experiences and travels.
- Richard Fariña
- 1966
Jan 9, 2013 · Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Richard Fariña, Thomas Pynchon (Introduction) 3.79. 3,471 ratings362 reviews. A witty, psychedelic, and telling novel of the 1960s. Richard Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age.
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- Paperback
Jan 13, 2021 · This was the political and emotional background of that long-ago spring term at Cornell—the time and setting of Richard Fariña’s novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me. Not that this is a typical “college” novel, exactly.
Sep 15, 1971 · A 1971 drama film based on Richard Farina's novel about a free-thinking student in 1958. The title comes from a song by Furry Lewis and is also referenced by The Doors.
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- Drama
- Jeffrey Young
- 1971-09-15
Been Down So Long Lyrics: Well, I've been down so Goddamn long / That it looks like up to me / Well, I've been down so very damn long / That it looks like up...
A 1971 comedy film about a college student who joins the counterculture movement and travels to Mexico and Cuba. The title is a play on the expression "been down so long it looks like up to me".
- Drama
Oct 20, 2019 · After a sojourn in Mexico, undergrad Gnossos Pappadopoulis comes back to his college where, at the close of the 1950s, he partakes in the staples of the burgeoning counterculture movement: drugs, casual sex and radical politics.
