...assigned them. PART THREE: "This Little Light..." (for alien Hoffman, 1943-1971) ...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad...candles exploding like spiders across the stars.... — Jack Kerouac in On The Road, 1 95 7 251 Prologue: The KerouacGinsberg-Cassady Karass ...the beat...

...I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,...roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. (OR, 9) Kerouac's characteristic position, shambling after the "mad ones," allows him both a narrative...

...people and let them know it. The only people for me are the mad ones . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like...roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. —Jack Kerouac The enormous success of the first Rocky movie surprised the experts. They saw it as...

...I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing . . ....

..."The only people for me are the mad ones," declares Kerouac's narrator and alter ego, Sal Paradise, "the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, delirious of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn,...

...shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad...roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' " Neal wasn't sure that...

...America those outcasts felt and saw and inhabited. Kerouac proclaimed that "the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad...burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles." Cassady, called Dean Moriarty in the book, lived his life like a bebop solo. Whether he was stealing...

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...suburbias, lack Kerouac was on the road, driving back and forth across the country in search of people "who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,...candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Ginsberg, Kerouac, and others proclaimed "the beat generation," a cluster of young artists enjoying...

...both in their lives and in their literature. Kerouac wrote in On the Road: "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."26 Ginsberg's "Howl" begins with the assertion: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed...