Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published

[jd]

Also, I am very much skeptical of Kerouac's anti-editing policy...
while he came up with a good story for why he chooses to write in that
manner, it still strikes of laze with a good backstory as opposed to
sound writing tactic.

The first paragraph of that salon article sums up how I feel about a
lot of beat writing.

On 7/27/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just sort of torn when it comes to the beats.  They certainly
> shook up the literary scene, and it's better for it.  But looking at
> them in modern terms...  Kerouac a high school football star,
> Burroughs from an affluent St. Louis family, Ginsberg a scholarship
> gold boy, it just feels like they put on a viel of being people they
> weren't...  I wonder how much heroin Burroughs bought with his
> parent's money.  And this, coming from someone who used to be a devout
> Burroughs fan.  I recently tried to re-read Nova Express and found it
> to be as a whole nonsensical.  I don't feel that way about Naked
> Lunch, though, which I also re-read recently.
>
> I guess it's better to just look at what they offered the world /
> literature as far as progress goes, as opposed to where it came from,
> however.  For me, when looking at literature that deals directly with
> lifestyle, that can sometimes be hard to do.  Like Frey's A Million
> Little Pieces.
>
> On 7/27/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I suppose the micro blurb inserted into the following link is old news to Pynchonites.  "On The Road" really did shake up the Lit. scene at the time and Pynchon was one of the affected authors.
> >
> > http://www.salon.com/weekly/kerouac960930.html
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: jd <wescac at gmail.com>
> > > Hah!
> > >
> > > I just don't know how much I care about On the Road.  Or even beatniks
> > > in general any longer, other than their influence they apparently had
> > > on Pynchon.  I wonder how much is actually going to be added to the
> > > text.
> > >
> > > On 7/27/06, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Actually, I hear the uncensored _On The Road_ will be sold in scroll form --
> > > > a four-pack, 2-ply and extra soft and absorbant.
> > > >
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> > > > I can't wait for the uncensored GR... :-}
> > > >
> > > > HM
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