Ellie Dorfman waiting for me to get ready to go out on the town, late March weekend, front room of my Lower East side apartment, 1987. Visiting down from Cambridge.
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 20.5 × 30.9 cm (8 1/16 × 12 3/16 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)
- Genre
- Photograph
![Bill Burroughs in back bedroom waiting for company, he’d arrived from South America in August & we stayed together in my apartment till December working on _Yage Letters_ and _Queer_ manuscripts – Ace Books’d printed first paperback _Junky_ edition that Spring. “I come home from work [at N.Y. World- Telegram, newspaper copyboy] 4:45 and we talk till one A.M. or later . . . am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month —,” so I wrote to Neal Cassady, September 4, 1953.](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/eb9c79bf-860b-4bb2-9f54-063d71f4fab3/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![Gelek Rimpoche from Lhasa and Ann Arbor unwrapping Tibetan text & beginning to chant it, Tokden Rinpoche, handling brass Vajia (Diamond Lightning Bolt) and Ghanta (Bell) Sonam, former chanting. master of Gyuto Tantric College idling behind them at picnic table outside lodge shrine-room after lunch, "just fooling around rather than having a ceremony." Sonam came in from Chicago, Tokden from Eastern Tibet to give oral Transmissions of one-volume short-form _Prajnaparamita_ [Highest perfect wisdom] _Sutra_ to Gelek's hundred students. "Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!" Over annual summer retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan, August 27, 1993.](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/b1ae88f0-bb0c-4b98-bd7f-3d50148b518e/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
