Re: Salinger and the Beats
Valerie Thompson (american_night@hotmail.com)
Wed, 13 May 1998 22:42:52 -0700 (PDT)
<< The novels are completely different but Kerouac in my
> opinion never wanted to be aboutaa movement he just wanted to be his
own
> writer. This is exactly what I think of Salinger.
> >>
>If this is true, why did Kerouac use all his friends who were very
much part
>of a movement as the basis for just about everything he wrote?
>
Because you write what you know, and Kerouac knew life with his
friends... road trips with Neal. And because, as Jack said, "some day we
will all be dead." Kerouac tried to tell the story of the world through
HIS eyes.
"
He and his friends became part of a movement because of what they wrote,
but I don't think they wrote what they did in an attempt to start a
movement.
~Valerie~
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