Re:Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died
by dluan on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:02PM
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Just yesterday, I was listening to a youtube video of Ginsberg doing a read of Howl. It really does seem like a chapter has closed on San Francisco, and its future seems really uncertain and open ended.
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You haven't felt the (light) weight of San Francisco history until you've trod upon the creaky steps of City Lights and caught a glimpse of the "Books Not Bombs" sign caught in a dusty sunbeam in a high corner of the store next to a black and white photo of Lawrence in one of his many hats. His influence and reach echoes through the years calling all of us to account and measure up.
Re:Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died
by microtherion on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:52PM
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Here's Ferlinghetti reading "Dog": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk8cMyCUnoo
It really evokes San Francisco to me.
As painful, shameful, and beautiful as it is, the baton has been handed to a generation of tech entrepreneurs and their entourages. And as much as I hate to say it, the city will emerge as something completely new and infinitely different.
That chapter ended when the world lost Lew, imo https://cucurbite.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/courses-by-lew-we...