This is a short entry that I have decided to take a chance on that some of you might be interested in Jack Kerouac's book "On The Road." My diary is not wordy, so I understand that I'm treading the line. I'm posting this as a reminder that at one time, our fathers and mothers walked around, talked to people, rode trains, drove around, had coffee plus other beverages, and had a sense of what America was about, rather than watching Fox, listening to NPR, or listening to Rush for their definitions of what our country was about. In the spirit of OPOL, and teacherken, I offer this with humility for all. Edit tags as you will. I Don't mean to offend anyone with this diary.
Thursday's BBC Radio 4 program stream presented a 30 minute tribute to the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's book "On the Road" with this terse program announcement:
"Greg Proops celebrates Jack Kerouac's seminal road trip novel."
And the audio is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
NPR/WNYC's program Studio 360 also celebrated Kerouac in their Sept 14th program:
"Jack Kerouac’s novel turned 50 this month and Studio 360 wanted to find out whether the book still speaks to readers. We turned to Hillary Frank and Jonathan Menjivar, newly married radio producers, to go exploring. Turned out Hillary had never read it -- so Jonathan gave her the underlined, scribbled-in copy he got when he was 17. We provoked a little marital tension in the process."
audio:
http://audio.wnyc.org/...
Here is a BBC diary of Kerouac:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...
And the Wikipedia entry says this about Kerouac:
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was written as a stream of consciousness creation—based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed in the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.
When the book was originally released, the New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance" of Kerouac's generation. [1] The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
Kerouac can be heard reading portions of his book on iTunes.. search for Kerouac.
Somehow we need to regain the freedom that America used to represent which is why I wrote this diray. Good Luck to all. We need luck and eachother.