The English Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) wrote that «if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite». This visionary line greatly influenced major figures of the Beat Generation, among them Allen Ginsberg, whose literary and intellectual friendship with Paul Bowles (1910–1999) was immortalized in various writings from the first half of the 20th century.
In turn, the American writer and musicologist who made Tangier his home for the final 52 years of his life opened his own «doors of perception» to countless artists and authors. Among them was Karim Debbagh, who discovered cinema, and fell in love with literature, through Bowles, from the very first moment the writer welcomed him into his home, a place he describes as «dark, warm, filled with writing and books everywhere»
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