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Beatniks were artists and writers who started a literature-based sociocultural movement in 1950s America. This Tumblr is all about them, their work, their inspirations, and those they inspired. I also include the evolution of faux beat culture into a 1950s pop trend as well as how the beatniks' influence continues today. I apologize for any reposts; it's difficult to remember what I have and have not shared.
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“On The Road is the name of this opus; I want to write about the crazy generation and put them on the map and give them importance and make everything begin to change once more, as it always does every twenty years. When I die I’ll be a shroud swimming in the Parade on the River, with skinny white arms and Lotus-Eyes, and that will be that, at night.”
- Jack Kerouac in a letter to Allen Ginsberg (July 11, 1949)
(Photograph by Al Hinkle, 1952)
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youlookridiculousinthatmakeup:
My homework this week, read On the Road. Excited about homework? Yes, yes I am.
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