December 2010
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New York Times review of On the Road, 1957 →
Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, “the Sun Also Rises” came to be regarded as the testament of the “Lost Generation,” so it seems certain that “On the Road” will come to be known as that of the “Beat Generation.” There is, otherwise, no similarity between the two: technically and philosophically, Hemingway and Kerouac are,...
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“Peter Orlovsky is an idiot!! He’s a Russian idiot. Not even Russian,...”
– Jack Kerouac about Peter Orlovsky Paris Review
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“In my opinion he’s the most intelligent man I’ve ever met in my...”
– Jack Kerouac about Neal Cassady, Paris Review Interview
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Paris Review interview with Jack Kerouac, 1968 →
I got the idea for the spontaneous style of On the Road from seeing how good old Neal Cassady wrote his letters to me, all first person, fast, mad, confessional, completely serious, all detailed, with real names in his case, however (being letters). I remembered also Goethe’s admonition, well Goethe’s prophecy that the future literature of the West would be confessional in nature;...
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New York Times review of On the Road, 1957 →
Just as, more than any other novel of the Twenties, “the Sun Also Rises” came to be regarded as the testament of the “Lost Generation,” so it seems certain that “On the Road” will come to be known as that of the “Beat Generation.” There is, otherwise, no similarity between the two: technically and philosophically, Hemingway and Kerouac are,...
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Impossible Happiness - An Elegy for Peter Orlovsky →
Peter Orlovsky, Cherry Valley, 1979
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William Burroughs interviewed by Dom Swaim, 1984 →
he talks of his views on drug use and his memories of Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
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“These are the names of the companies that have made
money from this war...”
– War Profit Litany by Allen Ginsberg dedicated to Ezra Pound, December 1, 1967
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“Let old Raven lie
We’ll hang him in the sea
Fog will kiss him
make him shiver...”
– Jack Kerouac (via dirtyboots)
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“Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.”
– Jack Kerouac (via pardonmyreach)
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“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long...”
– Jack Kerouac (via cherylannek)
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“So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is...”
– Jack Kerouac (via lackofsurprise)
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“poetry is generally a rhythmic articulation of feeling and the feeling is an...”
– Allen Ginsberg, on poetry (from Howl; the movie)
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“poetry is generally a rhythmic articulation of feeling and the feeling is an...”
– Allen Ginsberg, on poetry (from Howl; the movie)
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“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long...”
– Jack Kerouac (via cherylannek)
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“Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.”
– Jack Kerouac (via pardonmyreach)
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“Don’t touch me, I’m full of snakes.”
– Kerouac (via sweetaftertoil)
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“I’m not a beatnik, I’m a Catholic.”
– Jack Kerouac (via englishness)
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1958 - The War of the Intellectuals →
New York Times It’s hard to generalize about any historical moment, but in the intellectual journals of the era, some central themes emerge: a debate over the merits of the Beat movement, and the attempt by some influential critics to preserve the quickly dissolving distinctions among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture that had previously held sway.
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1958 - The War of the Intellectuals →
New York Times It’s hard to generalize about any historical moment, but in the intellectual journals of the era, some central themes emerge: a debate over the merits of the Beat movement, and the attempt by some influential critics to preserve the quickly dissolving distinctions among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow culture that had previously held sway.
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“Wash hung out
by moonlight
Friday night in May.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “An Eastern Ballad” (via tokig)
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Naropa: Allen Ginsberg lecture on Walt Whitman and... →
First half of a class with Allen Ginsberg reading and discussing the work of Walt Whitman and William Wordsworth, focusing on their later work. Ginsberg reads examples of Whitman’s prose and poems, including “Sands at Seventy,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” and examples of Wordsworth’s “bad poetry.” Ginsberg also reads and discusses ...
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“I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “An Eastern Ballad” (via tokig)
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“Empty baseball field
a robin
hops along the bench.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via imnorentboy)
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“Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle...”
– Lew Welch (via blogut)
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