Don't Look Back into the Sun

Citlalli 2022-10-02 09:08:27

The title is the ending song, and all the tragedy originates from someone who wants to monopolize the sun.

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I don't know why Do you love to make Lucien into this self-inflicted image, or is this just Lu in Gingsy's eyes? Lucien spreads light and heat without permission like the stars in the galaxy in the Beat Generation. The sun never favors or chooses anything. Ginsy, as a sunflower, enjoys the light and heat at the same time wishing that he was the hand that strangled other flowers.


Lucien is such a grinding little goblin. But at the end of the story, where have all the fairies who turned the world upside down and charmed all beings when they were young? They're all married. The famous poet Allen Ginsburg's mother said to him before his death, "Alan, get married. Take the key and stop taking drugs. The key is on the window sill, the key is in the sun on the window sill." Allen did not listen to her. , Lucien was married twice and had three children.

In the second half of his life, Lucien Carr was a dedicated reporter and editor of United Press International. No one knew how dazzling and alluring he was in his youth, or who he killed with his own hands when he was young, until the Beat Generation falsified the tragedy that ended his youth into a well-known work. He used to be their muse and they loved him, but love should be an act and not just an emotion.


Half of Ginsy's confession for Lu (the novel...) is based on jealousy of David, and the other half based on resentment against Lucien.

"Why did you ever love each other? Why can you love him but not me."


But is this jealousy really justified? At least in "Hippo" the author recalls that Lu and David did not have a physical relationship. Even if they used to love each other, even if they used to love each other, so what. Lucien once said that he was "just good at beginning". He made a fantastic start and then tried to log off. After unilaterally failed to log off, he had to force the shutdown.

Yes, he killed. It's all because of his beauty but not his fault. And Lucien Carr, he's going to endure this scab over and over again for the rest of his life, brewing into a dream, and being admired by millions, isn't that enough?


The Beat Generation's longest-living client, Lucien, died in 2005, and in 2008, "While the Hippo Cooked to Death in the Sink" was published.

In the end only time wins.

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Extended Reading

Kill Your Darlings quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Lucien Carr: Leave!

  • Lucien Carr: [on Kerouac's writings] It's brilliant, no?

    Allen Ginsberg: It's missing some periods and commas.

    Lucien Carr: It's better than anything you've ever written.

    Allen Ginsberg: I use periods and commas.