Carl Solomon

I mean, I didn't really drink, but they all went there.

So you could go and sit on, in the bar and sit next to Carl Solomon or Terry Southern and William, and I was, I had a big crush on William, so, you know, we, we became friends.

But back then everybody was around.

You know? There wasn't the same cult of celebrity.

Like, those were kind of the main things that were coming up for people, and me.

And so getting to explore those and, um, you know, uh, Carl Solomon is the other new historical figure who is, um, like a, a beat poet who no one knows about.

But, like, Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl and dedicated it to Carl Solomon, and it's like, you know, the, "I've seen the best minds of my generation lost to madness" or something, and that's about Carl Solomon.

So Carl was just, like, in the mental hospital, and, like, Ferlinghetti and, you know, um, Ginsberg and Kerouac, they were all, like, in...

They were...