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Umpteenth reread after a dense dense dense trip to NYC where I went to the White Horse Tavern and sat in the booth Dylan Thomas drank himself to death in. Where “GO HOME JACK” was scribbled on the urinal wall. Where a few streets up on 15th street Allen lived and over on Grove street Lucien Carr lived and Jack hurt his head on the fire escape.

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“This sound came in the dark
First must thou go the road to hell,
And to the bower of Ceres' daughter Proserpine,
Through overhanging dark, to see Tiresias,
Eyeless that was, a shade, that is in hell
So full of knowing that the beefy men know less than he,
Ere thou come to thy road's end.
Knowledge the shade of a shade,
Yet must thou sail after knowledge
Knowing less than drugged beasts.” Ezra Pound, Canto XLVII

This is turning out to be a re-read year and this book is LONG overdue for one.