April 1st – April Fool – Holy Goof

Allen Ginsberg, 1976. Photo: Robert Turney

“Then there’s something I like to call Crazy Seriousness. Kerouac used the word “goof” a lot in a very positive way, as when he was describing the Three Stooges in Visions of Cody. He was talking about Neal Cassady, actually, saying how the free imagination he felt in himself was justified in the world outside and he had nothing therefore to reproach himself for…”

[Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac]  – in Disembodied Poetics – Annals of the Jack Kerouac School – edited by Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling (1995)

Albert Einstein,  – Photograph by Arthur Sasse

Allen Ginsberg as Groucho Marx, Tompkins Square Park, New York  c.1985 – Photograph by Danny Shot

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