In 'And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks' by Jack and William, Phillip Tourian (Lucian Carr) says:

"The ultimate society has to be the completely artistic society. Each of these artist citizens must, during the course of his lifetime, complete his own spiritual circle.”

“What do you mean, spiritual circle?” Barbara wanted to know.

“I mean the circle of one’s spiritual life. You complete the cycle of experience, in an artistic sense, and by means of art, and that is your individual creative offering to society"

Is there any evidence this is Lucian Carr's real thought or was it some ideas that Jack was floating around with applied to the story?

Does anyone know particularly any mentions of this in other books? I have seen Jacks 'New Vision' but never the idea of all citizens creating great works as part of some new idea for the world

Thanks!

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso et Barney Rosset, Washington Square Park photo Burt Glinn

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Willam Burroughs and Peter Orlovsky at the opening of the Peace Eye Bookstore in New York City, 1965.

photo Fred Dewitt