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help with lawrence ferlinghetti quote

posted 18 years ago by paloma12
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Does anybody know the two missing parts of this quote? I can't quite catch the words he's saying in the documentary.
And does anybody know what book or poem it's from?

"There once was a place, perhaps, where all was light. Which once, praytell, some non-manmade god ...? And so, tra-la tra-la, its ... again my dears, and the music of the spheres, some kind of mad man laughter."

[–] pkuhre45 18 years ago

I'm wondering the same thing..

[–] paloma12 18 years ago

oh awesome i just found it. its from "triumph of the postmodern" which is in the book "these are my rivers" by lawrence ferlinghetti and it goes "although there once was a place perhaps
where all was light
which once was the place pray tell
some non-man-made god hung out

And so tra-la tra-la
It's fin du siècle again my dears
and the music of the spheres
some kind of mad mad laughter

[–] pkuhre45 18 years ago

Yes i bought it