The Beat Goes On

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:52:00 -0800

The timeless appeal of "On The Road"

david moran

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:28:56 -0800

What a lovely article, Alan Perkins has not only captured the spirit of the Beats, but also their relevance. Yes, yes, yes!

Corinne

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:34:56 -0800

Enjoyed the article. Thanks.

Paul Wilkinson

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:54:15 -0800

A very well considered piece that eschews hagiography in favor of balanced admiration. I quivered somewhat near the end, when I was invited to compare the paranoid impasse that was the Cold War with today's efforts to rid the planet of the perceived Islamic threat. "Oh, no," I thought, "not some trite and needless comparison to make Kerouac somehow relevant," but I needn't have worried. Perkins neatly handled the parallels without either exalting Kerouac to a latter-day pedestal he neither warrants nor deserves or by making the connection too forcedly and merging the 50s Beat generation with today's intercontinental, budget-air tourists. I shall not buy the new edition of On The Road, but I will try and track down my Penguin paperback. With any luck it will be in the attic, in a large cardboard box labeled, "Books I read at university when I should have been otherwise engaged," where it will share cobwebs and attic dust with the like of The Second Sex, The Myth of Sisyphus, Finnegans Wake and Don Quixote. Dammit if I don't fancy a warm Bud - and where's my Thelonius Monk album?

ronid

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:53:24 -0800

very glad to find this beautiful article..It makes me feel like reading "On the road" again,
Great work!

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The Beat Goes On

david moran

Corinne

Paul Wilkinson

ronid