The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

War is good business Invest your son

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.