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| October 21, 1969 |
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| Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) |
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Kerouac: Legend or Books?
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| by Steve King |
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Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 as a fire-watcher for the Washington State Forestry Service. For nine years, he had worked and wandered from New York City to San Francisco, from Mexico to Alaska, intent on "performing our one and noble function of the time, move." When not in motion, he had lived with Ginsberg or Burroughs or some of the other "despairists of our time" -- even, for two weeks, with his wife. He had written a handful of unpublished novels -- the last one, The Subterraneans, in a three-day, benzedrine rush of "spontaneous prose." He had written a larger handful of unpublished poetry -- the last collection, Mexico City Blues, a jazz-based, morphine-driven, New Reality Jam Session set of "sensory meditations ... FULL STORY »
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