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‘—shivering wildly—each spasmodic step—the blossom seemed welded to him. His smile—a touch wider now. He made a detour—going for—shrubbery—the whole quaking organism of him with the gargantuan blossom—an extension of his crazy soul. I watched—amazed. The flower couldn’t have landed in better hands—The Fred Astaire spider, we called him. He was brilliant orange—leaving us doubled over with mirth—back for an encore—’
— Jan 01, 2026 07:20PM
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‘—chameleon quality of his Virgoan—eyes—earthy darkness perhaps—Finally—cornbread—done—we lost ourselves for a spell in the warm—golden stuff—burying—faces—steaming pillows of grain—butter running in rivulets—we collapsed—slouching on wooden chairs in the lamplight—gazing wistfully at—debris of crumbs in—pan as a freight train went by—the 10 o’clock—its plaintive far-spiraling whistle screaming through the night—’
— Jan 17, 2026 03:17AM
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‘—bourgeois conventions her father was escaping simply don’t exist for her. “We felt no grief or anxiety for a life of comfort we’d lost—since we’d never had one” she writes. By the time she was born—previous generation’s Beat idealism had come and gone. The hangover was bleak. The celebrated fathers were drunk—wives and girlfriends cast aside—embittered. The neglected children were left to sift through the rubble—’
— Dec 31, 2025 01:47AM
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‘—an outsider living by his wits—robust pantheon—Don Quixote; Tom Jones; Huckleberry Finn; Augie March; Hunter S. Thompson’s alter ego, Raoul Duke—Jack Kerouac’s Sal Paradise—there isn’t an equivalent deep bench when it comes to female picaresque heroines. The historical reasons for this are obvious. Until at least the 1960s, women weren’t free to travel around alone—faced social condemnation if they did.’
— Dec 30, 2025 05:13PM
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Jan 04, 2026 06:48AM
I picked this up the other day, Emily. Like many lads in their early 20s, I had my big Kerouac phase... So I am intrigued to see how his daughter writes
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Matthew Ted wrote: "I picked this up the other day, Emily. Like many lads in their early 20s, I had my big Kerouac phase... So I am intrigued to see how his daughter writes"I'm curious to know your thoughts, Matthew : ) . I think with what you've 'said' in mind, I think it would be interesting to see how our views/final thoughts are in comparison. I read and didn't like the one and only Kerouac I read, so it's a little likely that I might like Jan's writing? A reviewer/reader who read it said reading this would make one hate Kerouac, haha, I don't know what to think of that (yet), frankly (too early to say).
