[a fool in paradise]

The beats at their core (at least folks like Kerouac) didn’t want to overthrow the culture or society.

You’ll find comments here and there by members of different figures in the high and low leisure classes who agreed that someone had to collect the tickets on the subway and someone had to keep the power plants running and someone had to...

Eternal adolescence now.

[RoosterRedux]

But William S Burroughs, though a talented writer, did not make a positive contribution to that period.

His homosexuality launched a thousand randy ships.

That said, I appreciate his literary talent...but damn his influence on young men who followed his lead.