Jean-Jacques Lebel unveils a commemorative plaque to mark the site of the famous Beat Hotel in Paris. Site of the completion of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and where he wrote many other books including The Soft Machine, plus where his and Brion Gysin's cut-up method was discovered and developed and where Gysin's Dream Machine took shape. Gregory Corso wrote "Bomb", Allen Ginsberg started "Kaddish" etc etc. Beat history.
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Go groan, go roll your bones.
Good for you. Would love to hear more about your crossed paths.
MonkeyTMG 2 years ago
Bless the Beats for jump starting our consciousness in the black and white Ike fifties. And corrupting this seventeen year old with anarchy and smack thirty years later when they shot Regan. I've crossed paths with William, Allen, and Gregory - albeit only for a moment - and moments or a maybe a year before their deaths - and I spat praise -and am grateful that I shared the Earth at the same time thy did - Now let us go moan for man.
superfuzzymomma 2 years ago