and wow....here is a very detailed account of all the events I referred to. I knew about half of the folks mentioned in the article, and was a member of the Philosophy club, Dialectica, that invited Ginsberg to speak. Oh, we had fun tweaking the English Dept.!

Ginsberg, as I have mentioned before when his name came up, was amazing in that when someone was speaking, he gave them his entire attention. I never met anyone, before or since, who made me feel so listened to.

And during that 'reading', he was masterful.....starting slowly and innocuously and letting Dr. Sowards relax....then gradually, like slowly heating a kettle with a frog in it, he 'raised the heat' until by the end, he was reading and saying anything and there was no perceptable place to have stepped in and stopped him.


say....maybe I was an honarary hippie for awhile there...☺