And shocks of hospitals and jails and wars - Whole intellects disgorged in total recallquote by: allen ginnsberg (1926-1997)
quoted: soundbite in
democracy comataken from allen ginsberg's poem 'Howl' (1956).
ginsberg, along with burroughs and kerouac seen as one of the voices of the beat generation, held some public readings of his poems during the sixties. this soundbite is taken from one of them. the beat generation started as a small group of close friends first, and a movement later. The term "Beat Generation" gradually came to represent an entire period in time.
The core group consisted of
jack kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and
william burroughs.
original text:
[...] yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars, whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement [...]