In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

Diane McCormick and I will be spending the week discussing Kerouac’s On the Road. We’re starting today with a background on Kerouac and the Beat Movement. Since Diane enjoys doing this, and I don’t, she has graciously consented to writing this . Enjoy. When Jack Kerouac put on his huaraches and walked out of Lowell, Massachusetts, [...]

Although On the Road was published before I started college, in seven years of college English classes I never had the opportunity to read this novel, and later I seldom had time to read novels that weren’t required for a class. Now that I’m no longer required to read student essays, I’ve finally found the [...]

At the beginning of Part Two, Sal implies he’s gotten his life back together after his first trip to the West Coast. But as soon as Dean shows up, he’s ready to throw all this away even though Sal realizes Dean has had no particular motive for coming to see him:It was a completely meaningless [...]

On Monday’s blog entry Pagecount writes an eloquent tribute to Kerouac’s novels and provides a number of excellent sources on the web, some of which I will probably borrow as links at the end of the series. Obviously he started reading the novels a long time ago, and thus they meant more to him than [...]