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and the poor sales clerk was indicted for selling it,
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and also the bookstore was indicted for importing it.
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It had been published in Europe.
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All they had to do in that trial,
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and it's very funny to read the
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transcript, is to prove that Ginsberg in Howl
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was doing anything remotely resembling literary work.
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And it's very funny to see people
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trying to argue that he was not.
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So, it's not enough to say that he uses the word "cock,"
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for example, in that poem; that's not enough.
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And the prosecutor tries to make the case on the basis of individual