December 2011
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of...
– William S. Burroughs (via nacheeto)
While doing a bit of reading on one of my favourite non-Beat poets, Sylvia Plath, I found some companionship in my opinion that she, and other confessional poets, rode a similar wavelength with the Beats.
I love when things I love overlap.
(If you’re interested, The Plath Diaries outline a graduate student’s work to write a thesis on Plath. Pretty intriguing!)
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And then some guy wandering as lost as you would all of a sudden be right before...
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Anonymous asked: What are your personal thoughts on Ginsberg and NAMBLA?
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They pass before me one by one riding on animals
“What are you waiting for,”...
– Philip Whalen, A Vision Of The Bodhisattvas (via thesetelevisionblues)
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We all talk among ourselves and we have common understandings, and we say...
– Allen Ginsberg (via dazeddaisies)
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Tombstone as a Lonely Charm (part 3) →
foxandthemonk:
if you want a revolution return to your childhood and kick out the bottom dont mistake changing headlines for changes if you want freedom dont mistake circles for revolutions think in terms of living and know you are dying & wonder why if you want a revolution learn to grow in spirals …
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2000+ followers. What a pleasant surprise!
I think it’s the luck of Tom Waits’s birthday.
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He was the first person who was famous for things you were supposed to hide — he...
– John Walters on William Burroughs (via sacramentmag)
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I want to marry a girl, so I can rest my soul with her till we both get old....
– Sal Paradise, On the Road (via light-me-up)
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A Blue Hand: The Beats in India →
A bit about the awesome book by Deborah Baker.
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