- [first lines]
- Allen Ginsberg: "Howl" for Carl Salomon. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
- [continues reading but unheard, credits roll]
- Jake Ehrlich: The battle of censorship will not be finally settled by your honor's decision, but you will either add to liberal-educated thinking, or by your decision you will add fuel to the fire of ignorance. Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be no running from non-existent destroyers of morals. Let there be honest understanding.
- Allen Ginsberg: The desire to censor is not limited, however, to crackpots and bigots. There is in most of us, a desire to make the world conform to our own views. And it takes all of the force of our own reason as well as our legal institutions to defy so human an urge.
- Allen Ginsberg: Now the question is what happens if you make a distinction between what you say to friends what you say to your muse. The trick is to eliminate the distinction. And talk with your muse sincerity to talk to you or their friends. And ability to participate in writing in their writing to reflect you are.
- Allen Ginsberg: This is the true meaning of prophecy is not a bomb falls in 1942. And understand and feel something someone will listen in 100 years. E... perhaps tips only in one sentence other then seizure of 100 years.