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  It's been a bad year. We've lost the great ones; the guys who saw it through that explosion of thought and passionate polemics and politics that the '50s and '60s, in all their stoned and, sometimes misguided, glory represent.

  First Tim, then Allen, now Bill. It's dubious you could lose a more definitive trio of great thinkers, great minds, great experientialists and great humanisers in one year. Worse, there will be no more words. To rip away these men is to scar the landscape of American and world literature indelibly.

  Not that everything they ever wrote was peerless prose. At their worst all three were self-indulgent shamans, as much in love with their own idealism and zeal as with the art of communicating understandable concept and philosophy to a world at large.

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