Ginsberg tells me that this guy is going to be the novelist of the future.įor any Ginsberg scholars interested in Allen’s early ideas, let me say that I enjoyed exposure to the early Ginsberg and became acquainted with one of the ideas that haunted and fascinated him during, I imagine, the Empty Mirror period. Ginsberg has painted a striking Golgotha in the OT shop. Nathan Grossman thinks, at times, that he is Gerhard Eisler. Aaron Fromm talks to people only after receiving a visit.Sam weinstein is worried about three pimples on his cock. I like the franks and beans of the Silver Palms.
The West not the East represents the future. Neal Cassady represents the “internal proletariat” of Toynbee – the hope of the West.
Some discussion of Toynbee just published in the U.S. Read me Yeats’ “The Second Coming” (“the falcon no longer hears the falconer”. Yeats and Spengler were much on his mind. Here’s Carl on Allen (courtesy of John Tytell’s sadly-out-of-print collection of Carl’s writings Emergency Messages : I say well, what are the rules?” He says, “There are two rules. I meet him in the afterlife and say, “How is it there?” He says, “Oh, just like the mental hospital, you get along if you know the rules”. “I had a great dream the other day of Carl Solomon, who died several years ago. “Carl Solomon, I’m with you in Rockland.”Ĭarl Solomon (1928-1993), famed dedicatee of Howl, was born on this date,March 30.įootage of Allen (accompanied by Ed Sanders) reciting the Heart Sutra, in memoriam, at the funeral home, on the occasion of his passing, can be found hereĪllen, quoted in Spin magazine, July 1997:
0 kommentar(er)
