before you read this, please do not forget to fill in the vocabulary quiz on p.2 for our next class
Dear friends on the road,
All life is but a skull-bone and
A pack of ribs through which
we just keep passing food & fuel
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.
My name is Jack Kerouac and I want to tell you this story about my friend Neal Cassady, whom I call Dean Moriarty in my novel On The Road.
Have a drink, play some jazz music and read the first two chapters from it:
(Week 13 reading)
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| (A Penguin Books Amplified Edition for iPad) |
Resources:
A clip from the 1985 documentary "Kerouac, the Movie." Jack Kerouac interviewed by Steve Allen in 1959, telling how he wrote the novel in just three weeks on one scroll of paper..
Artistic representation of Jack Kerouac's quote, "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes, 'Awww!'"
Russell Brand continues his epic road trip across America in this free video from BBC Worldwide. Here, the comedian visits the home of jazz poetry, a movement that was created in part by his literary idol Jack Keroauc during the time of writing the generation defining novel 'On the Road'. Brilliant video from BBC documentary 'Russell Brand on the Road'.
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