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Grateful Dead Uncle Johns
3,012 wordster> Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! The noble search for identity. That intangible achievement that all artists lust after and lay in torment over. And during the post war era that struggle reached incredible magnitudes. The world cried out for legions of anti-heroes, who were only virtuous in their unapologetic and brutally honest lack of virtue. And the art world provided as many counter culture messiahs as was needed to "Damn the Man." The Beats, hippies, and punks are evi...
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Period Of Time Dean Moriarty
1,047 wordsWikipedia encyclopedia suggests the word experience may refer (somewhat ambiguously) both to mentally unprocessed immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them. Most wisdom-experience accumulates over a period of time, though one can also experience (and gain general wisdom-experience from) a single specific momentary event. In novels On the Road and Saint Maybe, by Jack Kerouac and Anne Tyler, the author...
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Upper Middle Class Beat Generation
2,502 wordsThe Beat Generation According to Jack Kerouac, who originally named the Beat Generation (in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes in 1948) and who was its principal chronicler and representative, the Beat Generation had already begun to emerge during World War II. Kerouac recalled meeting hipsters in New York City in 1944 and feeling an affinity with them and sensing that some new consciousness was being born. Anyway, the hipsters, whose music was bop, they looked like criminals but they kept ...
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Leave The Reader Jack Kerouac People
423 wordsJack Kerouac is considered a legend in history as one of Americas best and foremost Beat Generation authors. On the Road was one such experience of Beatnic lifestyle through the eyes of Jack Kerouac. It was a time when America was rebuilding after WW I. Describing the complexity of the postwar society was not Karouac's original intent. However, this book described it a way everyone could visualize. It contained examples and experiences of common people looking for new and exciting experiences an...
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