A beat poet’s life mixed acid-planned euphoria with chronic homelessness

Evidence

In January 1961, Kaufman dropped acid with Kerouac and the LSD-proselytizing Harvard professor Timothy Leary. In March, his wife checked herself into Bellevue and briefly split back to San Francisco with their son Parker. She would return but Kaufman was drinking heavily and often homeless. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 309

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Rhetorical inflation made exile a soul-condition detached from material life — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 339; An artist can evoke psychedelia as becoming rather than as backward-looking iteration — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 354; The disease-model of Alzheimer’s doubles as the social countermodel of the homeless and unemployed — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 176 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Rhetorical inflation made exile a soul-condition detached from material life — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 339; An artist can evoke psychedelia as becoming rather than as backward-looking iteration — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 354; The disease-model of Alzheimer’s doubles as the social countermodel of the homeless and unemployed — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 176 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Rhetorical inflation made exile a soul-condition detached from material life #complicates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 339