conversation with John Clellon Holmes he used it to describe his contemporary generation as having an attitude of beatness or weariness with the world Kerouac imposed a new meaning to this word, that is beatific. The Beat Generation
first joined forces in 1944 in New York, at the Columbia University captured the attention of the media with their argot, their odd dress, their casual pursuit of pleasure, and their professed commitment to aesthetic values. The Beat Generation Characteristics: - interest in personal relationship - sadness - discovering bond between the boys, - flirting with sex and drugs - dedication to restlessness - impulsiveness - no perfection of style The Beat Generation Representatives:
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky On the Road interest in personal relationship: - the friendship of Sal Paradise (Jack Kerouac) with Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady)
- With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Before that Id often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off.
On the Road experimentation with drugs and sex
- Were trying to communicate with absolute honesty and absolute completeness everything on our minds. Weve had to take Benzedrine On the Road experimentation with drugs and sex
- We picked up two girls, a pretty young blonde and a fat brunette. They were dumb and sullen, but we wanted to make them. We took them to a rickety nightclub that was already closing, and there I spent all but two dollars on Scotches for them and beer for us. I was getting drunk and didnt care; everything was fine. My whole being and purpose was pointed at the little blonde. I wanted to go in there with all my strength. I hugged her and wanted to tell her On the Road experimentation with drugs and sex
- Her breasts stuck out straight and true; her little flanks looked delicious; her hair was long and lustrous black; and her eyes were great big blue things with timidities inside. I wished I was on her bus. A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world On the Road Sadness - There was a lull when we came in. Gene and Blondey just stood there, looking at nobody; all they wanted was cigarettes. There were some pretty girls, too. And one of them made eyes at Blondey and he never saw it, and if he had he wouldnt have cared, he was so sad and gone - The sad ride back to Denver began On the Road Restlessness and impulsiveness
- represent the heart of the novel - the triggering impulses of Sals travels On the Road Imperfection of style
- original scroll: 120ft scroll of teletype paper roll of text - no page breaks, no paragraphs, no real grammatical or stylistic revision and is all single spaced
(Routledge Research in Higher Education) Jenny L. Small - Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education - A Social Justice Framework To Support Religious Diversity-Routledge (2020)