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Is the audience supposed to admire the characters in 'On the Road', or just understand them? Most of the characters are scoundrels, but Sal never really gives an opinion on the morality of their behavior, just on how interesting they are.

>> No.7150613

Kill yourself

>> No.7150614

Is the audience supposed to enjoy 'On the Road' or just read it?

>> No.7150616

>>7150604

you are the audience. 'Supposed to' is irrelevant

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>>7150616
>He ignores the author's intentions

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>>7150627

yikes

>> No.7150654

>>7150616
the text is constructed in a way that lends itself to a particular reading i.e. it's "supposed to" be read a way. cool your autism

>> No.7150664

It's been years since I read it, and I last time i read the original scroll one that's has extra scenes and the original names, so I'm not sure if there's more material than what you read, but my recollection of it is that really everyone's fucking sad at the end.

>> No.7150683

>>7150645
Sophistry at its finest

>> No.7150689

>>7150654

is your particular reading the same as my particular reading? will we read it in the same way?

>> No.7150710

>>7150689
>>7150654
This is an interesting question. I often thought about this but never came to a conclusion.

>> No.7150720

>>7150689
if you define reading and both readings have the same qualities of the definition then it's the same reading. having read something 'the same way' is more a question of reader-response theory and how you define the process of reading rather than the reading itself.

>> No.7151160

I have such a tough relationship with On The Road.
I sort of love the romantic notion of road tripping beats the book spawned, but the book itself is mostly a slog to me, and the characters seem like uneducated baboons. They're not even good pseudo-intellectuals.

To answer your question though, I think at the time the appeal was in admiring them.

>> No.7151163

>>7150604
how can one man look so french?

>> No.7152374

>>7151163
>implying frogs look good

>> No.7152602

>>7152374
Roux de Poux detected.

>> No.7152642

>>7150720

the process of the reading is the reading

you can't separate them

>> No.7152662

>>7152642
the process of reading many texts is the same (or maybe all different) but leads to many readings.

>> No.7152701

>>7150604
God damn that man is handsome.

I think he might be the most handsome famous person who isn't famous in part for being handsome (i.e. actors or whatever).

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>>7152701
Jack London comes close.

>> No.7152997

>>7150683

>the word 'yikes'
>sophistry

lmao

>> No.7153001

>>7152662

right, there is no one 'particular reading' and no one way one is 'supposed' to read

>> No.7153019

>>7152793
>that wig
yikes

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7153021

Is Kerouac the most handsome writer in history?

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>>7153021

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>>7153031
Richard Bruce Nugent

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>>7153036

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7153079

I thought the book was occasionally dull to read and some of the prose was difficult but the main thing that kept me going was Moriarty/Cassady, such a cool and interesting character.

>tfw when you'll never get drunk and stoned with Jack and Neal at Jazz Clubs

How is the Dharma Bums? I was thinking about reading that next, or Naked Lunch. Also what about The First Third? I'm wondering if Jack's writing skill rubbed off on Cassady at all

>>7152701
>>7153021
I'd do stuff to Jack for sure

>> No.7153089

Wow completely forgot I had read Cormac's "The Road" til I read this thread, thanks for reminding me.

>> No.7153094

>>7153079

First Third is pretty average. A better portrait of Cassady can be found in The Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test.

>> No.7153117

>>7153079
Cassady is interesting as fuck. If you read Electric Kool Aid Acid Test you see him transformed into a weird shirtless hippy who attaches metaphysical significance to the way he tosses and catches a sledgehammer.

>> No.7153136

>>7153079
It's speculated Kerouac's writing was infact formed from the letters he and Cassady and written to eachother, he was impressed with Cassady's free flowing madman prose or something. Cassady's long lost manuscript or short story or something has only recently been found - can only hope it's released to the public.

Ps. Dharma Bums is a good read, Naked Lunch is okay but not to be taken seriously- it was more of a giant gay mans cock in the square literary world that was that century