Trout fishing in America and contemporary SF subculture

Sorting through the first 100 pages of Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, I began to notice several repeating characters, symbols and identities. These significant constructions are woven together through the novels erratic and disjointed manner of storytelling, which jumps from topic to topic with the turn of a couple pages. All characters and events are examined through their relation to "Trout Fishing in America" which at times is the literal act of fishing for trout, and at other times is something more abstract and fabricated, such as the "Trout Fishing in America" hotel or the "Trout Fishing in America" cookbook. If one sifts through the complexities of this stream of conscience prose, repeating characters become more developed. There is "Trout Fishing in America" Shorty, who from his description, seems to be a mentally unstable vagrant. Additionally, there is the small family unit, of the fisherman (presumed to be Brautigan), his wife and their baby, whose stories of camping and travel in what seem t0 be post war America show up again and again. This comprises the greatest sense of a narrative within the work. Combined with the many other fishing stories, a philosophical outlook is created through the examination of a simple activity; trout fishing.

I also wanted to point out some of the other independent activities that take place in SF that are a bit more core than raving and love fest.

This is a video of Frank Gerwer and Julien Stranger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duEQ2SQcDoQ

Here's a video of Jake Phelps talking about Embarcadero and what went down there in 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fqqf1XyCU0&feature=channel_video_title

This is a video of Brandon Westgate, 50% of the clips are in SF. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3bMVNvoL7c