Uncensored 'On the Road' to be published

Tim Strzechowski dedalus204 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 27 20:21:06 CDT 2006


Absolutely correct, Peter.  That distinction is important, especially since 
the whole "Beat" moniker was thrust upon them unwittingly.




> The term 'beatniks' rankles.  Kerouac, Ginsburg, Cassady, Corso, et al (et
> very few al) were Beats, and did whatever they did in the late '40s and
> early '50s.  The 'beatniks', so called, were the
> black-turtleneck-and-beret-wearing "Cool, daddy-o" pop culture wanna-be's
> who flared up in the, what, mid/late '50s after the Beats' writings were
> finally published and readily available.  World o' difference.
>




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