Post #60183 by kctiki on Sun, Nov 16, 2003 4:34 AM

I think "beat" came from the "old beater" cars Neal Cassidy drove. And the "beat up" old clothes they wore on the road, and "beat" old apartments they crashed in, etc.

It's like they saw the beauty in the ordinary things that surrounded them - old and worn out can have an interesting story to tell, and they told it.

The bennies (amphetamines) they took let them stay up and talk all night. Although sometimes they formed a circle and did things I don't go for.

They loved bop. Beat poetry is the jazz of spoken language.