Posted on 03/11/2022 9:09:02 AM PST by Borges
I wonder if she knows he lived the remainder of his life and died a devout Catholic.
with the world teetering on the brink of ww3... this is what Lady Trahan is spending her time on?
mind boggling
If I recall correctly from ‘On the Road’ Kerouac was raised by his aunt? I don’t recall him mentioning his parents in the book.
The guy may well be a great literary figure, and worthy of literature-based awards. But he was also a druggie and a drunk, so I’m not really sure why Congress should grant him particular honors just as a citizen.
Jack was born in 1922. It was a very different Western World 100 years ago. Royal families throughout Europe began losing power and influence.
1922 was only a few years after the
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Russia abolished it’s monarchy and adopted a socialist form of government. Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of Czarist rule. Bolsheviks later becoming the communists of the soviet union.
He was not raised by his aunt. He wrote in his books that he lived with his aunt, but it was his mother. Some say he changed her to his aunt out of embarrassment at being something of a Mama’s Boy.
OK thanks. Makes sense.
99% of Congress is evil, corrupt or just deeply stupid.
Rome is about to burn and they are looking for their fiddles.
But the fundamental issue is that a majority of the voters are evil, corrupt or stupid / ignorant.
Good times.
This seems to be really important to do at this time.
Maybe the Democrats can sponsor a bill to honor the guy who writes the traffic signs.
“On the Road” was a pretty good book, but I enjoyed Louis Lamour’s work much more.
The liberal senators involved should celebrate his life by killings themselves
Oops. I skimmed again. I thought it said Kavorkian.
My Bad. I read On the Road while was On The Road after college. Good book.
“If I recall correctly from ‘On the Road’ Kerouac was raised by his aunt? I don’t recall him mentioning his parents in the book.”
That was the factionalized part.
His “Aunt” was his mother (a widow).
His character in the book was Italian, he was French Canadian.
For his work.
(Whether that’s valid is a separate issue).
And most of all for tourism.
An angry man....I’ve watched a number of interviews with him
Like Faulkner
Drank a lot and an acquired taste
I saw him on some PBS show taped probably in late 60s, may have even been firing line with Bill Buckley. Drunk as a skunk.
“Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.” -On The Road (1957)
“But he was also a druggie and a drunk,”
Bill Clinton &
Hillary Clinton
Saw Truman Capote on the Tonight Show with Carson. Capote repeated his famous criticism of Kerouac, saying there was a difference between writing and typing.
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