"This episode is one of the many contradictions in Dworkin's life.
Another is her friendship with the poet and gay liberationist Allen
Ginsberg. "To me he was like a god," she says. "I plucked up the
courage to visit him after we met at an event. He told me over and
over again as I was leaving, 'I love you, I love you.' It was very
strange."
Dworkin and Ginsberg ended up sharing a godson. In Heartbreak, she
describes the confrontation that turned them into sworn enemies. On
the day of their godson's barmitzvah, child pornography was
criminalised by the supreme court. Dworkin was delighted, but knew
that Ginsberg had problems with the legislation.
"Ginsberg told me he had never met an intelligent person who had the
ideas I did," she writes. "I told him he didn't get around enough. He
said, 'The right wants to put me in jail.' I said, 'Yes, they're very
sentimental; I'd kill you.'" When I repeat this story to her, she
chuckles, and says in her slow, throaty way, "Oh good , I love that.
Don't worry, you can print it now, he is very dead." (Ginsberg died in
1997)."
From:
http://www.radgeek.com/gt/2005/04/11/more_by
Ginsberg supported NAMBLA, to the great delight of that stout band of
apologists for pederasty who put a picture of the Great Poet on their
website.
Pity. I really like "The Lion For Real".
Dominic
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