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"New York magazine derided [Dash Snow] for making art by ejaculating on copies of The New York Post...."

Dash Snow, dead of a drug overdose, at 27.

His sadness and his money and his drugs were a powerful dynamic, said Jack Walls, a close friend of Mr. Snow?s who is a former lover of the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe: the sadness was abetted by the drugs, the drugs abetted by the money.

Mr. Walls distinguished Mr. Snow from working-class addicts like William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke ? and himself. ?It was like his money never ran out,? Mr. Walls said. ?When it came to doing drugs, he could do these marathons for days and days on end. In my day, in Huncke?s day, in Burroughs?s day, when we wanted a fix, we had to go work ? we couldn?t just sit around getting high for three straight weeks.?

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