echt

Proper, real, genuine, true to type.

I had heard [the phrase] in Lamb House, Rye, but it was less echt Henry James than Henry James mocking echt Meredith.

And yes, that's what it's about. Some punk writing about sleeping with Ginsberg, despite their fifty-year age difference and homogenous sexuality. What's echt heebish? There's your answer. A hack fag poet and the power to plant him on playlists nationwide.

A small village at a crossroads in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ7305).

A town in Echt-Susteren municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.