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	Among the Secret Society of Ghosts by William Bevill (Goodreads Author), Kim Bell (Cover art) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I wrote a small book during a lock down period of COVID. My story was one I'd muddled around for a while and wound up being three Beat authors- Jack, Allen and William - getting on the road again after they've died and been re-animated as trained secret agents.

Existential Trips borrows heavily from my interests in literary and film from the Beat and Hippie world (down to the "Further" bus playing Read more of this blog post »

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American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)

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Lonely Men Club

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― Somerset Maugham

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“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
― Jonathan Ames

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

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― Allen Ginsberg

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