Friday, September 29, 2017

Book Excerpt for the Day


    I used to think I was mad to want to be a saint, but now what have I got to fear?  People’s opinions?  Loss of a teaching job?  I am living outside this context.  I make my own sanctity.  How else?  Suffering and humility are forced upon my otherwise wild ego by lugging baggage in Greyhound.

    I started out as a fair-haired boy in academic Columbia.

    (from The Essential Ginsberg  by Allen Ginsberg)

  6*/10.  The complete review is here.
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