Not much lersson, I'm afraid--lots of sober academics also burn out. Either
of these paths and the many others we improvise can, to torture an image,
lead to the open road or a swamp. Let's say that a life in academe works
for you. Try, on the other hand, to imagine Herman Melville or Emily
Dickinson, or for that matter Baudelaire or Sade, at a faculty meeting.
Mark
>To say 'I'm crazy like a daisy' and 'I'm wild like a wildflower' (Corso and
>Ginsberg, I can't remember in which order) is very lyrical but both of
>these plants need nurturing and care to stay alive more than one season.
>Ginsberg progressed, Corso burnt out. There is a lesson there with those
>two for us Happy Fools who write Poetry.
>
>Andrew
>
>I have retrieved the quote from Kent for your interest:
>
> >Have I wasted my life on the Ph.D. track
>instead of disarranging my senses with smack
>and driving a blue car through the stars?<
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