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Allen Ginsberg: Is About

eithiriel @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Dylan is about the Individual against the whole creation
Beethoven is about one man’s fist in the lightning clouds
The Pope is about abortion & the spirits of the dead…
Television is about people sitting in their living room looking at
their things
America is about being a big Country full of Cowboys Indians Jews
Negroes & Americans
Orientals Chicanos Factories skyscrapers […]

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T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

eithiriel @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, […]

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