In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

Part Four begins, and ends, almost exactly the same as the previous three parts, though we do learn a little more about the characters as The Wheel turns: This was exactly what he had been doing with Camille in Frisco on the other side of the continent. The same battered trunk stuck out from under the [...]

I started out this week hoping that On the Road would become one of my favorite novels of the 20th Century. It hasn’t. In fact, I found that I prefer Dharma Bums, the only other book I’ve read by Kerouac, to On the Road. The two works are written in a very similar style, and [...]