The man who keeps The Dead alive

"And you've got the communal aspect of it, which is to say, it was a very safe place to be. As we used to say - and I still hear it - you could 'freak freely,' and just do your thing. Essentially, it was the last way in America, I thought, that you could
really get up, run away and join the circus."
He couldn't know it at the time, but those days were the internship to his career.

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