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00:00My original partner Peter Dean Martin was the son of Carlo Tresca, the Italian anarchist who
00:16was assassinated on the streets of New York. And so we had an anarchist beginning of the bookstore.
00:22I don't know what his politics are, you know, if he's a communist, a socialist,
00:29an anarchist, if he's an anarchist.
00:42Today, the vanguard, the avant-garde of the world is not a cultural avant-garde.
00:47The vanguard is really the poor people of the world.
00:54I didn't get much sleep last night.
00:59I don't know what's always fooling around with you.
01:02Corso was good at stealing books. He was excellent at stealing books. He was a master.
01:12Only the lovers of life are fit to die. That's by Gregory Corso.
01:20Charlie Parker was playing on the 52nd street. Miles Davis, they were doing poetry.
01:27With instruments. That was actually the start of what came to be the beat generation, poetry and words.
01:38Good to have been.
01:42He was brilliant at the beginning of the colonial academy, poetry.
01:45The poetry is like it's the highest manifestation of the human ingenue speak up.
01:52Oh, I know.
01:53He neutralizes the bad in himself.
01:56And so what he did do for us?
01:58Thank you for listening.
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