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Travelling along routes of those crazy Beats is in my blood. I got interested in the
specifics from high school teaching. What did Jack Kerouac look like? "Well, kids, I
made slides from a biography of him, and here�s the guy in Mexico City with some of the
others."
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Made dozens of slides, he being a cool writer for our English course. "Okay, this is
Tangier, in Morocco, where the Beats all got together for the last time - 1957,
<i>On the Road</i> being published a few months later."
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So I�m showing the slides and I have to give a commentary. And before long I�m keen
about this stuff for its own sake, not just as instruction. Off I go during holidays to take
my own photos, also to get my own impressions down on paper, and guess what? A book
is in the making.
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Two of my previous books were about mythology, a subject Kerouac got into about
Mexico. There�s a myth about an eagle and a snake, images found on Mexico�s flag, that
Kerouac used in writing <i>Dr. Sax</i>. With that same story I begin my book <i>Myths Within</i>,
and thus feel kinship with him on that account.
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My book about Jack Kerouac and company is called <i>Ecstasy of the Beats: On the Road to
Understanding</i>. A short opener has me in Greenwich Village amid some upstate New
York college students who�ve got there on a trip all across America - out to San Francisco
and back. That was in January 2007, those students celebrating the fiftieth anniversary
of <i>On the Road</i>�s publication.
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All the rest of my book is from earlier on in my Beat research. I�ll tell now about the first
trip told in it, in 2005 by Greyhound from Toronto to New York, then westward through
Denver to San Francisco. Unlike the kids, I went on to Mexico City before returning
home, and will include that as well.
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Material on my recent Beat Research can be viewed by going to my Research Page.
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