Allen Ginsberg “finally sat on the edge of the couch and said, ‘Well, Dr [William Carlos] Williams, here we are [Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, and AG], all assembled. What immortal words do you have for us?’ So he pointed to the curtained window, looking out on the main street of Rutherford, and said, ‘There’s a lot of bastards out there!’” (from The Allen Ginsberg Project)
This explains a lot.
