Lucien Carr was a beautiful, bright, privileged, and adventurous boy, charmed by Arthur Rimbaud, the precocious poet obsessed with alienation and symbolism. Lucien enjoyed quoting Rimbaud.
“—I just can’t keep up with Jacques and all that, I wanta go back to my simple Lucien and Allen and Bill. ” — Jack Kerouac in a letter to Allen Ginsberg, 29 June 1963
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