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On 2008-06-14 14:46, Dr. Zarkov wrote:
Okay, I'm real late in getting back to posting on this thread I started, so I apologize for only adding to it now that it appears to be thoroughly dead.
He said he met Kerouac in a local bar one night and, not knowing who he was, asked him. "I'm the greatest writer since sweet Will," Kerouac replied boozily. The only other thing I remember this guy telling me was that the notion that Kerouac wrote without revising was a myth. He recalled visiting Kerouac's house and seeing him carefully revising one of his manuscripts, I believe it was verse. [ Edited by: Dr. Zarkov 2008-06-14 14:51 ]
Jack was more or less FORCED to revise . As he said , he was on Blake's " crooked road of prophecy " . Others were on the " straight narrows roads of business " ...
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