Howl

Part I (read: The Trinity of Spiritual, Street, and Howl Ghost)

Part III continues the discussion brought up in the latter portion of Part I in Howl, specifically the following lines:

"Pilgrim State’s Rockland’s and Greystone’s foetid halls, bickering with the echoes of the soul, rocking and rolling in the midnight solitude-bench dolmen-realms of love, dream of life a nightmare, bodies turned to stone as heavy as the moon,
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ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe, and now you’re really in the total animal soup of time"

In the first thought stanza or however you call it, Ginsberg introduces Rockland, which as we know he calls back to around nineteen times in Part III of Howl. Since it is mentioned in Part I the reader is already aware of the madhouse setting that is referred to in Part III. Something that also sets these lines apart and makes them special is that they do not start with "who." To me it makes these lines stand out and seem very purposeful. Not saying that some lines in Howl are not purposeful, I believe they are, but changing the beginning word in this section calls attention to it.
The second thought-breath-stanza caught my attention during the first day of discussion. This line, to me and hopefully I am not the only one, is one of transcendence. Finally, one of the best minds achieves this greater state and all he had to do was accomplish madness and coexist with other mad-labeled people. If Ginsberg would have left this part with no continuation it would not have left such a strong impact as it does in Part III.
This feeling of transcendence is one of the spiritual realm, brought up with words like angel headedhippsters and the like, but also one of the street. Madness to a 'normal' person might be more in the realm of the base or street, maybe even under the street.

I am going slightly (read: completely) out of numeric order because Part II (read: Part Moloch) is slightly less obvious of a tie in because "Moloch" is not referenced in Part I by name. Instead we see Moloch behind the terrible happenings and bleak language that appears in Part I:

"incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud...
yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes and eyeball kicks and shocks of hospitals and jails and wars...

suffering Eastern sweats and Tangerian bone-grindings and migraines of China under junk-withdrawal in Newark’s bleak furnished room,

who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts...."

And a ton of other lines with dark cloud no rain images that manage to rain on a drug waking nightmare accompanied by alcohol and cock and endless balls. The problem with something that is not blatantly named is that an enemy is hard to find. Luckily in Part II Ginsberg introduces the reader to Moloch. Suddenly it is not an unnamed invisible karma or bad life decision that ruins the best minds of a generation. It is the machine that enters the young soul while it watches PBS- of course!

Switch back to Part III- the answer already mentioned up above. Trinity- Combination of Spiritual, Street, and Howl Ghost. Only the combination of Spritual (transcendence) and street (naked madness) beats up on the Howl Ghost (Moloch). So, let's all go mad together. Only, if we're mad, we wouldn't know that we were.

That is right, you are already on your way.