4 Works in Jack Kerouac/Edie Parker
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Psych Ward AU: Allen has just been admitted into a psych ward. It's there that he meets Lucien Carr -- intoxicating, brilliant, and potentially dangerous. But the closer Allen gets to Lu, the more he realizes that even the most perfect are flawed, and that life isn't always as easy as it seems to be.
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All Allen Ginsberg needs is a library book on rhyme and meter, things he absolutely abhors being so everpresent yet things he requires for an article on his blog. What he finds is rather a young librarian and writer by the name of Lucien Carr, choking on cigarettes and booze and the glamorous life of deterioration -- and just like his writing, it's quite magnificent.
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Allen Ginsberg is a freshman at Columbia University in 1943 where he meets Lucien Carr, another student. They embark on a journey of self discovery and artistry, becoming what is known as 'The Libertine Circle' with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouc. The group of friends find themselves dealing with everything from sexual identity to murder.
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"You go to whatever lengths you need to go to to remove him from your life. Sometimes, self-preservation requires extreme lengths."