News at Eleven: For one thing, he [Allen Ginsberg] saw

patients far more unhinged than he. "The people here see more visions in one day than I do in a year," he wrote to Kerouac. "Allen did not successfully confront the boundary between unending madness and temporary collapse," [Janet] Hadda writes, "until his sojourn at the Psychiatric Institute."

from Los Angeles Times: Before 'Howl,' the hospital

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