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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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