Originally appeared in the Boston Book Review
at 2:50 PM March 10 1955
reached point in time where life was no longer suffering but to live was a pleasure.
Allen Ginsberg, "Journals Mid-Fifties (1954-1958)"
HB: What struck me most reading the "Journals
Mid-Fifties" is the theme of love. You discuss it on a cosmic spiritual
level, but also in terms of a masochism and submissiveness you wrestle with
constantly.
AG: I hadn't thought of it as masochism but I guess it's so.
HB: You use the word a lot.
AG: It's kind of a buzz word.