Jack Kerouac:
I read his novel "On the Road" a few days ago and watched a movie based on it. I don't know if I really understood the novel or movie. I think it'll take some time for me to decide whether I really like it or not.
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Hes the Daddy of the Beat Movement. All the other Beats point to him. Even though he rejected the notion, himself. He hated hippies. He was not a hippy. Very conservative, actually. A French-American Catholic who drank himself to death. As Catholics often do
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Oh, really? Many Catholics die of alcoholism, huh? I didn't know that. I wonder why they do.
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I was married to a Catholic gal & knew a lot of Catholics. They're prone to drink. They dont all die from it, I guess. I was being facetious. But just look at the Irish. Haha. Hello? Kerouac actually DID drink himself to death. I love drunk poets. More wine!
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Jack Kerouac died on this date, October 21st, 1969. He was 47. “... all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor.”
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So you were married to a Catholic woman. I'm glad to have learned all this from the horse's mouth. So the Irish, too, tend to be alcoholic. Yes, it seems that way. I love to read Eugene O'Neill and he drank, drank, and drank when young. Many of his relatives seems the same way.
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I myself drank and drank in my early twenties. I really did want to drink myself to death. I didn't and still don't like alcohol but I just couldn't help drinking because of my overwhelming suffering. Later on I realized that alcohol doen't help me a bit. So I quit.
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