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Description

A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones. This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.

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First Sentence

I was bearing a white phallus through the wood of the world, I was looking for a place to plunge it, a place to surrender it.

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  1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author)
 

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