07.13
A few years ago I was on a beat writer kick. I devoured books by Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, and Aldous Huxley (is he a beat writer?). Of course, I also read Tom Wolfe and his classic “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”.
Somewhere in one of these books there was a quote by someone named Tuli Kupferberg. I liked this quote so much, I had to write it down:
The world needs less specialists in force and murder and more generalists in love.
Until a year ago I had no idea who Tuli Kupferberg was. All I know is I liked his quote.
Tuli Kupferberg died July 12th. According to the all-knowing, almighty Wikipedia, he was a counterculture poet, writer, singer, and “pacifistic anarchist”. I’m not sure how many of those are running around these days. Unfortunately I think we are running out of people who think like Tuli.
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