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Hey! Wait a sec! I've got to praise Jack K. If for no other reason than he is a fellow Lowellian! You did note "(actually, on the periphery of)" so I guess you were talking about a wide slice of the genre and not the basic Beat.



"On the Road" was written in virtually one sitting on a tele-type paper roll and, well, it shows. As Truman Capote said, "that's not writing. That's typing."

Still, I agree the Beat's wer interesting personalities, who played an important role in the American post-war cultural milieu.