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by jmpman
2590 days ago
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Except that we are talking about celebrating the publishing of Howl. Does Howl advocate child rape, or does he keep that out of his works like Michael Jackson doesn’t advocate relationships with children in Thriller and Woody Allen doesn’t advocate for marrying underage relatives in Manhattan. I expect Allen Ginsburg’s Howl is about as depraved as the man. |
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There is a lot in there of which I am not intimately familiar but I don't believe it does. It seems to me that contemporary claims of depravity of Howl centered around depiction of consensual homosexual acts, or drugs, or simple use of swearing, all of which are less shocking today than they were in the 50s. If you can find a specific example do tell.
> Woody Allen doesn’t advocate for marrying underage relatives in Manhattan
There is a creepy relationship with an underage girl (played by Mariel Hemingway) in that film. The amount of seeming autobiographical material in his work of the time make this hard to dismiss.