I love Allen for introducing me to Jack Kerouac:...

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Any attempt to label an entire generation is unrewarding, and yet the generation which went through the last war, or at least could get a drink easily once it was over, seems to possess a uniform, general quality which demands an adjective ... The origins of the word 'beat' are obscure, but the meaning is only too clear to most Americans. More than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and, ultimately, of soul; a feeling of being reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it means being undramatically pushed up against the wall of oneself.
Its members have an instinctive individuality, needing no bohemianism or imposed eccentricity to express it.
- John Clellon Holmes

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I love Allen for introducing me to Jack Kerouac: first to Kerouac’s correspondence to him, and the sections of Mexico City Blues in the letters … and then, later, introducing me to Jack personally when they dropped by my apartment with a $5 matchbox of pot. a

—Michael McClure on Allen Ginsberg

(Source: allenginsberg.org)

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