At a Beat-era party in San Francisco with Ginsberg and Corso, the poet Diane di Prima got up at 9pm to relieve her babysitter. Corso told her she'd be dead as an artist. She replied she'd be dead as a mother if she didn't, and walked out. For her, breaking her word to the babysitter and breaking her word to her child were the same breach of discipline.
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