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20 Dec 2008 04:31 pm
"Yes, But After"
A friend sends along this little gem of an interview between John Lofton and Allen Ginsberg. Money quote:
LOFTON: But I am interested in this question of your possible madness. It’s not a gratuitous question. There is a history of madness in your family.
GINSBERG: Very much so.
LOFTON: Your mom died in 1956 in a mental institution. Before that.
in 1949, when you were twenty-three. you spent eight months in the
Columbia Psychiatric Institute. What was this psychiatric disability
and why did you spend just eight months in this institute?
GINSBERG: Well, I had a sort of visionary experience in which I
heard William Blake’s voice. It was probably an auditory hallucination,
but it was a very rich experience.
LOFTON: This happened while you were masturbating, right?
GINSBERG: Yes, but after.
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