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Crimson: You have written about William Blake in earlier works and said he influenced you then. Does he still have that affect...
...sake, purely literary. But literary means a lot of different things. There is an old saying by Plato or Pythagoras, "when the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake." Or, what [William Carlos] Williams said, "the new world is only a new mind." Or, Blake: "the eye altering, alters all." When there is a new perception in poetry and a change of the form, it generally means a change of body rhythm, a change in thinking about language, and a change in consciousness itself. And this has a fallout. It changes the way people relate...
Ginsberg: Blake is always an inspiration. I once made a recording of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake turned me on to the voice in poetry. I once had an interesting psychedelic experience, without drugs, while reading Blake. It was an auditory hallucination of his voice pronouncing "the sunflower and the sick rose." Years later I began working with that to extrapolate tunes and melodies from those tones. I tried to reconstruct what it sounded like when Black orignally sand those words...
What kind of idiot could get himself into this fix? What actor could portray such an idiot? The answer to the second question (Dudley Moore) spends two and a half hours answering the first in Blake Edwards' latest romantic celluloid conniption, Micki and Maude...
...which tries to set Moore up logically, and without loss of the audience's sympathy, as a bigamist brought farcically to his knees when both his wives (Amy Irving and Ann Reinking) go into labor simultaneously and are assigned adjacent hospital rooms. As he nearly always does, Director Blake Edwards delivers the low, knockabout goods, and Moore is funny as he tries to attend both ladies and still keep his secret from them. But that secret is a nasty one, and all his good nature cannot wash it away. Nor can it allay the suspicion that his character...