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*Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler Alley or Adler Place) is a one-way alleyway in Chinatown, San Francisco, California that connects Grant Avenue and Columbus Avenue, running between "Vesuvio Cafe"
(255 Columbus Ave.) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights Books" (261 Columbus Ave.).
Jane Bowles
1917-1973
Quotes by or About Jane Bowles
“She radiated a kind of twisted, broken beauty,” is how John Hopkins remembers Jane Bowles in . . . The Tangier Diaries. Although Bowles is only one of a huge cast of characters—her husband Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Mohammed M'rabet, Larby Layachi, Alfred Chester, Timothy Leary, and Tennessee Williams are just some of the others—she is a frequent touchstone for the young Hopkins, her deterioration and death offering a kind of shape to his diaristic account. The 1975 entry headed “Looking for Jane Bowles' Grave” is an especially moving one, a climax which seems to lead the maturing writer toward his eventual departure from the once magical Interzone.
— Eric Lorberer
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"We each have only one single life which is our real life, starting at the cradle and ending at the grave. I warn Dorothy every time I see her that if she doesn't watch out, her life is going to be left aching and starving on the side of the road and she's going to get to her grave without it. The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog."
—Jane Bowles, "Plain Pleasures" in My Sister's Hand in Mine (New York: Ecco Press, 1978)
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Although Bowles is only one of a huge cast of characters—her husband Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Mohammed M'rabet, Larby Layachi, Alfred Chester, Timothy Leary, and Tennessee Williams are just some of the others—she is a frequent touchstone for the young Hopkins, her deterioration and death offering a kind of shape to his diaristic account. The 1975 entry headed “Looking for Jane Bowles' Grave” is an especially moving one, a climax which seems to lead the maturing writer toward his eventual departure from the once magical Interzone.
— Eric Lorberer
RAIN TAXI
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