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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
A Favorite of 4, Read by 66, Owned by 44, Reviewed by 2, Quotes 1
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road...(more)
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Jack Kerouac : b. Jean-Louis Lebris De Kerouac  US author, influenced the “beat” generation
Tue Oct 24 05:59:43 UTC 2006
Source: On the Road
Contributed by: D BOZ.
Jack Kerouac said

Here’s a guy and everyboy’s there, right? Up to him to put down what’s on everybody else’s mind. He starts the first chorus, then lines up his ideas, people, yeah, yeah, but get it, and then rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden somwhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He’s filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows its not the tune that counts but IT