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Beat Poet Finally Found What He Was Looking For

JL;DR SUMMARY Kill Your Darlings, a film about Allen Ginsberg's early years, explores the young poet's complex blend of personal and artistic desires. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentitySelf DiscoveryTransformationAllen GinsbergSexualityArtistic ExpressionBeat GenerationLiterary InspirationLucien CarrOutsider Status

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Paterson, New Jersey, United States
"Later in life, Allen Ginsberg the beatnik and hippie would become such strong personas that the worried Jewish kid from Paterson was indeed left behind."
New York, United States
"But at Columbia, theres still that freshness, that uncertainty in his eyes."

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