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Cassady and Kerouac
By Ned | May 14, 2007
Maybe it’s just me, but it’s always seemed sort of odd that Jack Kerouac would base so much of his writing style off of letters written by a friend of his who’s known more for his appearance in other Beat literature than his own creative output.
And then I was reading this collection of various Beat writings and I came across a couple of Cassady’s letters to Kerouac.
And holy crap. The best way I can describe this letters is by comparing them to the spontaneous, unrehearsed output of a slam poet on fifteen cups of coffee in a sudden stroke of genius. Or a stroke of something anyway.
Now I get it. If I could write postcards like that I would be a character in several classic American novels too.
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May 16th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Your blog totally lied, there was nothing below the fold…
May 16th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Yeah, I can’t get it to stop saying that for every post. I’ll get to fixing that eventually. Or not.