Editing Beat Generation (section)

===Times Square "underworld"===
Ginsberg was arrested in 1949. The police attempted to stop Jack Melody (a.k.a. "little Jack") while he was driving a car in Queens with Priscella Arminger (alias, Vickie Russell or "Detroit Redhead") and Allen Ginsberg in the back seat.  The car was filled with stolen items Little Jack planned to fence. Jack Melody crashed while trying to flee, rolled the car and the three of them escaped on foot.  Allen Ginsberg lost his glasses in the accident and left incriminating notebooks behind. He was given the option to plead insanity to avoid a jail term and was committed for 90 days to [[Bellevue Hospital]], where he met [[Carl Solomon]].<ref>Morgan, ''Literary Outlaw'' (1988), pp. 163–165.</ref>

Solomon was arguably more eccentric than psychotic. A fan of [[Antonin Artaud]], he indulged in self-consciously "crazy" behavior, like throwing potato salad at a college lecturer on [[Dada]]ism. Solomon was given [[Electroconvulsive therapy|shock treatments]] at Bellevue; this became one of the main themes of Ginsberg's "Howl", which was dedicated to Solomon. Solomon later became the publishing contact who agreed to publish Burroughs' first novel, ''[[Junkie (novel)|Junkie]]'', in 1953.<ref>Morgan, ''Literary Outlaw'' (1988), pp 205–6.</ref>