Kerouac: King of the Beats

This is a clip from the award winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On the Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change.

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[deframj]

This is a mix of Visions of Cody and On The Road which was most likely typed on a sheet of paper and slipped in the front cover of the book he is holding. In Visions of Cody it is "sleeping in me raw bed alone and stupid", but here it sure sounds like he says "was stupid". There are other slight differences from the printed word, probably because it just sounds better this way.

[tomelifeisjustonebig]

Father Spike is wearing a Shinehart wig.

[4crows]

Thats Father "Spike" Morrisette french Canadian Priest from Lowell. Ma who knew Kerouac all his life. ..then Edie Parker, and of course Allen Ginsberg