"And the hippos were boiled in their tanks"

“Rimbaud thought he was God”, Philip said. Maybe that’s the primary requisite. In Cabala man stands on the threshold of vegetable life, and between him and God remains only a misty shroud. But suppose you actually project yourself as God, as the sun, then what would you see and know?”

“Yes”, said Al. “You might have something there. But of course Rimbaud eventually failed after a projection of that sort.”

BURROUGHS & KEROUAC