WILLIAM RAND
&
His Business With Rene Ricard
among other things__
RENE | WILLIAM RAND | NEW YORK DIARIES
Excerpt from Essay by Raymond Foye
~Writer, Editor, Curator, Publisher
Rene Ricard was one of those outrageous bohemian figures who had lived live on the edge every single day — like Gregory Corso or Harry Smith. Nobody can tell the future, but I don’t think figures like that are going to come our way again, I’m not sure why, and I hope I am wrong, but it’s just a feeling I have. People were different back then, I think it had to do with the way they were brought up and the things they saw happening in the world, whether it was the atomic bomb, the beat era of the 1950s or the counter culture revolution of the 1960s. These were one time events never to be repeated. Even at the time I was aware how unique so many of these characters were, like Rene Ricard, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. For me they were truly gods who walked the earth.
