... in a period of three months (Hopkins, p.59). He took LSD or smoked marijuana, or both, virtually on a daily basis, while scribbling poetry in a notebook (Hopkins, p.59). These poems eventually became songs. Jim ran into a friend from school, Ray Manzarek. Jim said he had been writing poems and Ray asked him to sing one (Hopkins, p.60). When he had finished Ray said ... had always sought self-definition. This search was marked first by constant attention seeking as a child. When he still could not feel his own existence, he then looked to others for the reactions and responses he needed ...

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