The Velvet Underground Pt I
No Dogs in Space
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Lou Reed and Delmore Schwartz
The former Wonder Boy was depressed divorced and paranoid teaching creative writing at Syracuse in mismatch socks and sometimes mismatch shoes all through a haze of uppers downers and a whole lot of booze. Delmore Schwartz actually had that a letter that T.S. Eliot wrote to him he carried it everywhere like in his breast pocket every day until the day he diedYeah Lou took a few of Delmore's classes and soon enough he just realized oh Delmore's just at the bar I can just go to the orange bar and hang out with my friends yeah but for Delmore Schwartz all this early praise from geniuses like T.s. Eliot seemed to be too much too soon in the 20 years since
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