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(I’m 23 minutes late but) A Very Happy 33rd Birthday to Win Butler of Arcade Fire, one of my favorite bands of all time
“At a reading, in Los Angeles, one particular heckler harassed [Allen] Ginsberg throughout his reading [of ‘Howl’]…The heckler was more interested in engaging in a fistfight. He taunted the poets, calling them cowards, insisting they explain what they were trying to prove onstage. ‘Nakedness’ Ginsberg replied. When the heckler demanded further explanation Allen left the stage and approached him. He accused the man of wanting to do something brave in front of an audience and then challenged him to take off all his clothes. As he walked toward the drunk, Allen stripped off all his clothing, hurling his pants and shirt at the now retreating heckler. ‘Stand naked before the people,” Allen said. ‘The poet always stands naked before the world.’ Defeated the man backed into another room.”
— “Howl for Now” Edited by Simon Warner
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
