Lyrics from “Purple Haze” written by Jimi Hendrix: © 1967 Yameta Co., Ltd. Part IV from “The Seven Phallic Poems” by Rainer Maria Rilke: Selection is reprinted from RILKE ON LOVE AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES, Translations and Considerations of Rainer Maria Rilke by John J.L. “Lifting Belly” by Gertrude Stein: Reprinted by permission from BEE TIME VINE AND OTHER PIECES (1913–1927) by Gertrude Stein, Yale University Press. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, A Division of Gulf & Western Corporation. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpt from A LOVING GENTLEMAN by Meta Carpenter and Orin Borsten: Copyright © 1976 by Meta Carpenter Wilde and Orin Borsten. The Wallace family’s publishing magic lives on with Amy Wallace, author of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, and David Wallechinsky, author of The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics and Tyrants: The World’s Worst Dictators. His wife, Sylvia Wallace, wrote the best-selling novel The Fountains.
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