This is Allen Ginsberg’s reading list for his class, “Literary History of the Beats.” (Yes, he is on it.)
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Thesis defended, committee approved! Pictured above: my lovely audience, waving. YOU’RE THE BEST.
(via carrieabigstick)
“
I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it’s not pretty.
it was the first time I’d
realized
that.
This is what writing a dissertation looks like. Not pictured: cookies, alcohol, afternoon naps.
“Patients have been known to seek fluids from any source possible.”
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don’t wiggle it.
Sometimes when I’m waiting for the bus at Nicollet & 4th three-quarters drunk, having to take a piss, freezing my ass (hands) off and nose running because of it, I realize that this is what life is.
too tired for yesterday