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[Dennis]

> On what census was Allen Ginsberg relying when he asked America, in
> the poem of the same name, when it would be worthy of its million
> Trotskyites?
>
> Doug

I think it was merely poetic license -- a million sounds nice and round and
rolls easily into the hardness of "Trotskyites." In an early version,
Ginsberg had "million Christs," which I prefer, but which he obviously
spurned for something more secular.

DP