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Myself seen by William Burroughs, my new-bought Kodak Retina from Bowery hock-shop in his hand, our apartment … Lower East Side between Avenues B & C, …. Kerouac, Corso and Alan Ansen visited, The Subterraneans records much of the scene, Burroughs & I worked editing manuscripts he’d sent me as letters from Mexico & South America, the neighborhood heavily Polish & Ukrainian, some artists, junkies & medical students, rent only ¼ of my $120 monthly wage as newspaper copyboy. Fall 1953. (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #allenginsberg #williamsburroughs #burroughs #beatgeneration #beatwriter #poetry #poet #literary #nyc #lowereastside #photography #queer #gay #queerwriters #gaywriters #jackkerouac #thesubterraneans #gregorycorso (at New York, New York)
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Japanese emperor Akihito visited Jungfraujoch in Switzerland while he was the crown prince and enjoyed walking around the Alps with a Nikon S camera , 1953.
The books we need, are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation, a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka