![]() ![]() Allen was always credited with the quote but did he actually say it? And when an assiduous search through his Collected Works turned up only half of it (the “don’t hide the madness” bit – from the poem, “On Burroughs’ Work” – “A naked lunch is natural to us,/we eat reality sandwiches/But allegories are so much lettuce./Don’t hide the madness.” ) we were, understandably, further entrenched in our skepticism, another of those classic well-meant-but-actually- inaccurate attributions? ![]() Here’s the popular site goodreads, here’s a blog that proudly holds it as its title, here… but the phrase is a quite extraordinarily popular one, an internet meme, if you will, which, for some time, it has to be confessed, we here at the Allen Ginsberg Project found, well, more than a little troubling. Type the words “Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness” (with or without the quotation marks) into the Google search engine and you’ll come up with over (a good deal over) 90,000 results. ![]()
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