February 2012
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"Why Do I Love Allen?," Michael McClure →
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Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything...
– Jack Kerouac - On the Road (via theselittlewhitelies)
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Daniel Radcliffe told not to trim his pubic hair... →
Mildly belated but nevertheless severely important news.
Anonymous asked: How important was Buddhism to beat culture?
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no...
– Alan Watts
(via madaeli26)
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Anonymous asked: You must have had an interesting time in high school if you spend this much time researching beats.
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Geometry by Ken Kesey
void-of-self-loathing:
If you draw a line Precisely safe and parallel to mine, We can sail together Clear on past the stars And never meet. And since the holes between These points of distant heat Are deep and blind, Sight a course for collision And hang on tight! …the precision of our loving Is the lethal kind.
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Anonymous asked: I have to come up with a thesis for history on a subject that interests me- I decided to do the Beat Generation. I just need to come up with a cool idea for it. I was thinking of doing one on how the Beats influenced subsequent youth generations (beatniks, hippies, punks, Naropa), but I don't know. I want to talk about all the cool history- like the Columbia years and time on the road, etc....
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Every time I saw him, I thought he was riveting and that he established a kind...
– Joyce Johnson on Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
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I am fifty-two, live alone, considered some mad freak genius
In reality I am a...
– from “Chasing Kerouac’s Shadow,” Jack Micheline
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We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution
Called America,...
– from Rant, from a Cool Place by Diane di Prima (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
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the-mitch-of-living:
Words
by Hettie Jones
are keys
or stanchions
or stones
I give you my word
You pocket it
and keep the change
Here is a word on
the tip of my tounge:love
I hold it close
though it dreams of leaving
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