Allen Ginsberg #botd was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan
“He knew the world in a deep and extraordinary manner. He was himself a deep and extraordinary world.”
An Obituary for Franz Kafka by Milena Jesenská; tr. George Gibian
“Narcissism appears realistically to represent the best way of coping with the tensions and anxieties of modern life, and the prevailing social conditions therefore tend to bring out narcissistic traits that are present, in varying degrees, in everyone. These conditions have also transformed the family, which in turn shapes the underlying structure of personality. A society that fears it has no future is not likely to give much attention to the needs of the next generation…”
— Christopher Lasch