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"Long nights simply thinking about the usefulness of that little wire scourer, those little yellow copper things you buy in supermarkets for 10 cents, all to me infinitely more interesting than the stupid and senseless "Steppenwolf" novel in the shack which I read with a shrug, this old fart reflecting the "conformity" of today and all the while he thought he was a big Nietzsche, old imitator of Dostoevsky fifty years too late (he feels tormented in a "personal hell" he calls it because he doesnt like what other people like! ) -- Better at noon to watch the orange and black Princeton colors on the wings of a butterfly -- Best to go hear the sound of the sea at night on the shore..." - Kerouac, Big Sur
So did he just hate it because it kept shitting on his beloved jazz or what?
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>I really hate to write
No shit, it really shows, you overrated hack.
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>>9395318
>(he feels tormented in a "personal hell" he calls it because he doesnt like what other people like! )
PRESCIENT
KEROUAC PREDICTED 4CHAN
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If he had bothered to read any further he would have realised that it actually criticised the very thing he was complaining about
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>>9395318
Keep in mind that Kerouac was in the throes of alcoholism by the time he wrote Big Sur. Alcoholism makes a man hate pretty much everything eventually.
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>>9395577
Why are you interpreting this as Kerouacs own thoughts? Its a character in a work of his
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>>9395600
Because said character was very closely based on himself. Everyone in his books were people he knew- Cassady, Ginsberg etc. He only changed the names because his publishers wanted to avoid lawsuits.
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