February 2012
24 posts
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“At that instant we looked into each other’s eyes and there was a kind of...”
– Allen Ginsberg on meeting Peter Orlovsky (via woodysblues)
Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Feb 24th
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“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got...”
– Jack Kerouac
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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“I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale”
– From “Junkmans Obbligato” in  A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via doyouget-it)
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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“I went back to Mexico City and saw Joan Burroughs leaning forward in a garden...”
– Allen Ginsberg, Dream Record, June 1955
Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best...”
– Allen Ginsberg
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 13th
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“O but what about love? I forget love not that I am incapable of love...”
– from Marriage by Gregory Corso
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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“Following each other my cats stop when it thunders.”
– Jack Kerouac
Feb 10th
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“Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a...”
– Ginsberg (via bludinmyhair )
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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“This, then, is the gift the world has given me (you have given me) softly the...”
– First Snow, Kerhonkson by Diane di Prima
Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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“frozen in the birdbath A leaf”
– Jack Kerouac
Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
31 posts
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“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
– William Burroughs
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“So the beginning of the crack-up of consciousness that lead to an Einstein-ian...”
– Allen Ginsberg
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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“I’m praying that you’ll buy ON THE ROAD and make a movie of it....”
– Beginning of letter by Kerouac to Marlon Brando
Jan 22nd
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The Beat Hotel - Photographs →
9 rue Git-le-Coeur, Paris was the address that photographer Harold Chapman captured the family album of the last Parisian ‘Vie de Boheme’, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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“I love Allen for introducing me to Jack Kerouac: first to Kerouac’s...”
– Michael McClure on Allen Ginsberg
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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“Language like muttering pant smells running silver scanning Passed down...”
– Spain & 42nd St. by William Burroughs
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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“My biography was born July 1933. Grew up with dirty feet & giggles. Cant...”
– Biographical Note, by Peter Orlovsky
Jan 12th
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“I love Allen because he is apparently fearless for his body and went swimming in...”
– Michael McClure on Allen Ginsberg
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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An Interview with Allen Ginsberg →
“Invent your own poetics—invent yourselves. [William Carlos] Williams says, ‘A new world is only a new mind.’ I’m obsolete and bankrupt in the sense that I’m tied to old leftist ideas and old gay ideas and sixties’ ideas and meditation…. Probably there’s a whole new wave, through punks and beyond, that doesn’t have the same allegiances and that has a fresh view. I’d be interested in...
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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“Make my grave shape of heart so like a flower be free aired &...”
– Snail Poem by Peter Orlovsky, 1958
Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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“Student; Death is everywhere…hmm. AG: Death is everywhere, Hum? Student: Death...”
– Allen Ginsberg, Naropa lecture 1975
Jan 6th
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