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What television program was Kerouac watching when he suddenly began vomiting blood on the day of his death?

How much jail time did William Burroughs serve for shooting his wife Joan through the temple?

Doctor Sax in Kerouac's novel is based on what radio character?

What rank did the beatniks hold among the greatest threats to America, according to a 1961 statement by J. Edgar Hoover?

What snack did Kerouac's mother prepare for the author throughout his life?

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Beatitude (adj): a state of utmost bliss. To Kerouac it was the idea that the downtrodden are saintly - not about politics but about spirituality and art.
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Cut my thoughts for coconuts
The father of beatitude was undoubtedly Jack Kerouac. A lot can be said of Jack and the gang which descended on the world in the late 1950s. These pages were set up to serve as a springboard into that time. The players are as they were in their own words. In the case of the Beat Generation, a lot can happen in just a few short years. If we can learn just one thing, it should be that much more experimentation must be done to language if we are ever to understand our own interior monologues.
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Beat Generation Texts

Kerouac, Ginsburg, Cassady
> Pull My Daisy

Jack Kerouac
> Bop
> On The Road (slim)
> On The Road (route 6)
> On The Road (chicago)
> Scripture Of The Golden Eternity
> Desolation Angels
> Spontaneous Prose
> Jack on Modern Prose

Diane DiPrima
> Song For Baby-O, Unborn
> Seattle Song

Elise Cowen
> untitled

Gregory Corso
> Marriage

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
> Dog

William Burroughs
> Naked Lunch
> A Thanksgiving Prayer
> Junky's Christmas

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A 1952 article that appeared in New York Times Magazine
> This Is The Beat Generation

Kerouac defines the term Beat Generation in Esquire
> Aftermath

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