![]() Ginsberg and Solomon quickly bonded once they discovered a shared love of Russian literature. He and Allen Ginsberg met in a waiting room at a psychiatric hospital where Ginsberg was visiting his mother. Solomon, born on Main the Bronx, is mainly famous for having inspired the poem “Howl”, rather than for any achievements of his own. He and his friends were making an artistic statement by doing this, but years later when Solomon pleaded for a lobotomy to end his psychotic anguish he was not being artistic. ![]() Yes, Carl Solomon really did throw potato salad during a City College of New York lecture on Dadaism. (From Howl (for Carl Solomon)‘ by Allen Ginsberg) “… who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy …” ![]()
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