so there's much more about allen ginsberg and bob dylan right today that ginsberg died. the next night dylan was playing a concert in canada and perform what he said, he announced to the crowd, you know he doesn't talk a lot to the crowd, but he did talk to continue dedicating his performance of desolation row to allen ginsberg because it was allen ginsberg's favorite song. right to the end they were very, very tight. okay. well, we move on to the section about dylan's early career. and i talk to someone about repeatedly about the immense concerts i attend. i use that not come in part to go by so myself into work or my perceptions in the book but also as a kind of plumbline from which i then land and look out over other aspects of dylan's career. but one of those events was a concert that he gave on halloween night in 1964 at philharmonic hall. which my father, was very tough growing up where i grew up. my dead friend eighth street bookshop in greenwich village. and was right in the center of the bead world, i had a father who got me free tickets to bob dylan concert was

as we closed the program, i am struck and reminded by are fred allen ginsberg -- our friend allen ginsberg -- a white republican judge was killed on the way to meet his friend, a democratic congresswoman who was jewish. her life was saved by an injured, a mexican-american intern and later by a korean-american surgeon. >> our dream for the best of america, and the truth of the best of america. there are parts that are not so wonderful, and what the president was calling on everybody to do is help the good part to triumph over the ugly and evil part. i am cynical enough to be not sure what is going to win. >> i did it is a beautiful portrait of for our country is today -- of where our country is today. i wish we ever take it live up to that portrait -- every day could live up to that portrait, and we don't. but perhaps that is something else we can take out of this tragedy, how diverse this country is, how successful it can be as a diverse country as well. >> colby, 20-year-old daniel hernandez heard the gunshot and ran towards it, rather than away, a natural reaction. >> that is why he is a

allen ginsberg wrote a wonderful few words about it. i struggle to read it. i want to appreciate it. how revolutionary activist, 1960's beat literary renaissance, a road in life and politics. humorous, both union -- bohemian, 20 century radical, the equanimity exemplary in political and mystical moats. a great woman poet, the second half of the american century. she delivered a major body of verse, brilliant in its particular day. as a dyslexic, those words were more difficult than they may appear. particularity. i love that. it is an honor to formally announced we already informally announced, our fifth pole of laureate in our great city and county of san francisco, diane diprima. congratulations and welcome. [applause] >> wow, look at all of these folks. are any of you one of my five kids? [laughter] i just wanted to be very brief, because we're going to do a more formal inaugural thing, and inaugural event, so i'm not going to take a lot of time now. there is a lot of stuff going on at 11 in the morning in san francisco. people have to do this and that. so