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« Reply #120 on: June 29, 2009, 09:59:36 am »











'Flea-bag shrine'



Today the whole building would be viewed as an art installation, but in its time it was dismissed by some critics as "a flea-bag shrine".





Despite going upmarket, the hotel still attracts fans of Beat culture



Another guest, the Beat poet Harold Norse, who died this month, predicted the hotel would one day be "a flea-bag shrine visited by art historians".

That image of Burroughs with the wire baskets is on the mantel piece at Harold's home on England's south coast.

It was the first of several photos he took of the quiet author known as the Invisible Man.

I asked how he had got to take it, expecting a complex tale of Beat Hotel favours. Instead, he had simply heard Burroughs was being interviewed for a magazine.

When the door to Room 15 opened, and the journalist and photographer were ushered in, Harold followed, took one shot, and made his exit. The cat burglar with a camera had snatched the cream.
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