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...When Watts became a fixture of the San Francisco Beat scene, he provided the intellectual ballast to underpin the Zen sensibility that influenced Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac....
...Here, in Alan Warburton’s “Sprites I-IV”, a series of lenticular prints show various miserable versions of the artist desperately attempting to sleep — curled underneath his desk, scrunched into a chair...
...A friend of the poet Allen Ginsberg and himself an experimental film-maker who spent his final years as “shaman-in-residence” at a Buddhist-inspired university in Colorado, Smith was fascinated by the occult...
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