AG: Yeah. I’m finding a lot of times the only time I really get any work done writing is after spending a long day and doing whatever I’m doing, like everybody else, and then everybody else has gone to bed and I’m alone finally at about two in the morning I begin writing. Student: Yeah. AG: And then if it’s any good, it’ll carry me on until ten or eleven the next morning. “Kaddish” I came home at five in the morning after shooting some speed and methamphetamine and also some morphine, so I couldn’t go to bed anyway. And then I started writing, thinking, “Well, I’ll write an hour or two about my mother and then I’ll go to sleep,” because I’d been up all night. Because I had some more amphetamine with me, too. But then it got getting good, so I just kept going and I went, I think, from Saturday morning at five when I got home, all the way up through Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening. And then I was just getting started, because I’d just gotten into it. And so I think I took some more amphetamine and a little bit, a tiny bit of mescaline that I had around, or something – a tiny bit – and a little bit of morphine to sort of smooth it all out, because I didn’t want to get too nervous.

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