"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix [...]"
("Howl", Alleng Ginsberg, 1955)
It always sounds bitter when a talented artist as her throws everything away for drugs and alcohol and, in Mark Renton's words, chooses not to choose life. In 1955 Allen Ginsberg though it about his friends, who were also the best poets of his generation; nowadays, things haven't changed, and the curious fact is that our best minds ( Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse) hold on until the age of 27. Then, in a way or another, they leave the stage and get through the myth.
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