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This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

Boredom is death.

In the realm of physical sensations, sex reigns supreme.

Hence the beatniks sustain themselves on marijuana, jazz, free swinging poetry, exhausting themselves in orgies of sex ; ;

some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.