/lit/ - Literature

>>22276524
fixed

>>22276524
Honey, it’s time for our William Tell act

>>22276524
The herion chic suburban new road to the shops promise, you mean. Fuck the beatniks.

>>22276524
god I fucking hate jack kerouc every sentence is purely him grasping an opportunity to stroke his own ego

>>22276723
Writing about people drifting through life and largely failing is an odd way to stroke one's ego, especially when you do it in a fairly minimal style.

>>22276528
Needs more WS Burroughs.

>>22276610

>>22276723
You are onto something.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/10/kerouacs_on_the_road.html

>>22276524
Certain types of young men go through a Kerouac phase the same way as certain other types of young men go through an Ayn Rand phase. The longer they remain fixated within it the more likely they're completely retarded and there's no hope for them intellectually or socially. Also, "young" men but it should be something overcome in the teen years--the further one passes into their 20s as it happens the more likely it seems that they're going to be stuck with a basic/contrived personality and be generally annoying to be around.

As for Kerouac's writing: I can't honestly argue that it's bad. However, you can't tell me that a quick search won't yield dozens of quotes that could easily be mistaken for those tacky affirmations you see stenciled in cursive on the walls of stupid people or tattooed on the scrawny arm of a retarded hipster (see below).

As for what became of Kerouac: there's nothing more pathetic than an aged drunken boho preaching vapid platitudes through a heavily slurred and geriatric slang; still investing himself in what should be a youth culture. There comes a time to grow up and leave the party.

>“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
>“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
>“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
>“The only truth is music.”
>“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
>“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
>“Pain or love or danger makes you real again....”

Aside, Ginsberg was a fucking pedo who read smutty/pornographic poems at NAMBLA, of which he was a member, conventions. (Age restricted so no time stamp; at the 11min40sec mark https://youtu.be/kn3qCF3OTHc))))

Friendly reminder that The New York Poets > The Beats

>>22277341
kek

>>22277403
I'd like to see the bottom half of this picture

>>22277563
Think he's playing an accordion

>>22276528
Fpbp