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Beat literature Anonymous Mon Jan 22 17:22:45 2018 No.10574703 [Reply] [Original]

Opinions welcomed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 19:14:24 2018 No.10574797 Had to put this up quick because images weren't working. I wanted to see /lit/ 's opinion on all beat/hippie writers. Are they just juvenile like a lot of critiques claim or do they actually have substance within in their works.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 19:32:09 2018 No.10574806 >>10574703 I like to blame myself for the beatnik horror

Anonymous Mon Jan 22 19:39:54 2018 No.10574809

Love 'em.
It's easy to for someone (particularly young contrarians today) to say the beats were juvenile. But that's missing the point. They knew that, that's what they're writing was about.
Kerouac said- Hey! Maybe I could take reefer-smoking, negro music, and hanging out with friends and make that literature.
Burroughs said- Hey! Maybe I could take the nightmares of heroin withdrawal and turn it into satire.
And so on.
It took balls, it was new, and it was a movement undertaken by a bunch of kids. It's pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 20:05:29 2018 No.10574840 >>10574703 I wish newspapers still shit on liberals like this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 22 22:10:29 2018 No.10574921 Ginsberg was a member of NAMBLA

Anonymous Mon Jan 22 22:16:18 2018 No.10574928

>>10574809
Well said. I'd also like to add that they did a great deal for me in terms of questioning authority. They're not the end all of literature, but they can be a good starting point.

That being said, their value isn't only as a starting point. I return to the beats frequently.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 02:03:54 2018 No.10575022 >>10574921 he was also racist and sexist

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 02:55:27 2018 No.10575039 Burroughs is a fucking Saint. Kerouac is boring. Ginsburg is less boring.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 03:26:07 2018 No.10575040 Test

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 06:37:18 2018 No.10575283 >>10574703 > Burroughs the """"""""""""""ex""""""""""""""" drug addict

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 07:04:29 2018 No.10575338 >>10574840 The Daily Mail still prints trash articles like this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 23 07:08:20 2018 No.10575347 I've read nearly all the works of these fantastic individuals. I even have a shelf in my bookcase dedicated to the Beats. I love how reckless youth still rings true today. The world might change around us, but we keep on being ourselves.

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