THE LITERARY HERITAGE
OF A (STILL) YOUNG WRITER
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     As my life continued slowly to intensify--a rollercoaster that I could not know was headed for total upending--I was expelled from New College, the experimental school in Florica that I transferred to after my debilitating second year at Northwestern. I went to live outside Ithaca, New York on a commune, a little colony of people I'd met at that same school.

     Here, people were reading the I Ching and knew the Tarot cards as real divination tools, not as an allusion in "The Waste Land". Young Americans had created the Counterculture, a true Hegalian antithesis to the one-sidedness of mainstream American culture.

 

 

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