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Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of "Beat" culture included rejection of received standards, innovations in style, experimentation with drugs, alternative sexualities, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism, and explicit portrayals of the human condition.
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“
I was about to be swallowed
By my mother's womb—
Where I might enjoy again
The perfect solitude of death.
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― Lorca's Grave
― Lorca's Grave
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