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“Yeahofcourse.That'sCorso,yeah,”hesaid,referringtohimselfinthethird
person.
So we started walking down 23rd street with Corso, talking with him, and he
was grabbing at people as he staggered down the street. At one point, he stopped
right in front of the Chelsea Hotel, and he pointed at his picture of Hitler.
“Look
athim!Hecouldadonesomanygoodthings,themotherfucker!Thebroads
loved
him! Look at his shoes! Those spats!”
And then he walked into the Chelsea. I found out later that he was going up
to Marty Matz's room.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
Assoonasthatguysaid“Hitler,”Ithoughttheguywasacrazyfucker.Icouldn't
believe anyone would say that.
James Rasin, who later made a film about Andy Warhol's drag queen associate Candy
Darling, eventually befriended Corso as well.
JAMES RASIN
Once Gregory told me, “I'm going to Atlantic City. You wanna come with me?
Let's go to the Port Authority and catch the bus.”
I had just gotten paid—I had about three hundred bucks in my pocket, so I
said, “Sure, let's go!”
So we're walking through the Port Authority, and I was thinking this was
pretty cool, doing this with him. But then this homeless guy behind us starts say-
ing “Excuse me,” and starts chasing after us.
I thought, “Well, I'm going to ignore this guy!”
But he came up to me. He tapped me on the shoulder and then he started
shaking me. He said, “This fell out of your pocket!” He was holding my wad of
money—it had fallen out of my pocket.
Corsowasecstatic. “Youaretheluckiest personintheworld.I'veneverseen
anything like it! I'm so glad we're going out— you're gonna be good luck in At-
lantic City!”
To have a homeless guy chase you down with your three hundred dollars! I
feltlikekindofajackass,soIgavetheguysomemoneyandwewentonandhad
fun.
Corso had just gotten the galley proofs of his book
Minefield.
The whole bus
ride out, he was reading aloud to me from the galleys as he proofread it. Gregory
was a great teacher.
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