Jack Kerouac - Reluctant Icon | Biographical Documentary

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• JW

  @JWP452 · 11 months ago

  I read "On the Road" at Austen Riggs, and fell completely in love with Jack. I also became an alcoholic, but thanks to the grace of God, I just celebrated 46 years of sobriety.

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• EV

  @EvanFrenchMusic93 · 2 years ago

  I live in Saint Petersburg, Florida, where Jack spent the last few years of his life. He has become quite an icon here in the city. The flamingo bar on mlk, where he used to hang out regularly, has become quite a shrine to him, and they have events throughout the year in celebration of him. Recently, his last remaining house that he owned while living here  was made into a historical landmark, and I'm proud to say that I was one of the local voices that led to it being made into that.

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• SH

  @shapursasan9019 · 9 months ago

  &quot;I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.&quot;<br><br>- Jack Kerouac

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• JC

  @jcfw · 2 years ago

  Excellent video. In 1979, when I was 19, I flew on Laker Airways from UK to New York and hitchhiked across the USA as far as Seattle and down into Mexico. That&apos;s how much Kerouac influenced my life. I still cherish the memories of that trip.

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• JE

  @jennymaclennan2736 · 1 year ago

  I read On The Road when I was a young mother and it did make me wish I could be on the road too but reading it 30 years later made me feel sad about the pointlessness of their lives

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• SU

  @supramentalmanifestation · 2 years ago

  I loved Kerouac in high school, then stopped reading him. In my mid 30s, I picked up &quot;On the Road&quot; in a bookshop and started reading random passages and realized quickly how much the book shaped my consciousness. Thanks for the video. I loved it.

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• FO

  @forcelightningcable9639 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Kerouac defined the beat generation, and taught many outcasts and discontents, including myself, how to live in a world that doesn’t give a damn about us. I love that man.

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• TB

  @tb-xb7rv · 1 year ago

  With 1.4 thousand comments here i doubt mine will ever be read but I am moved to express my two cents nonetheless. &nbsp;I possess and have read a number of Kerouac bios, same with most all of his books including posthumous releases of his writings. &nbsp;Jack&apos;s writings have been and continue to be a source of pleasure, amazement, intrigue, inspiration, creativity, provocation of my senses, wonder, appreciation , hunger for raw experience, desire to explore the back alleys the underbelly of society, a craving to uncover the surface of people places things---<br>I was a Verb seeking the meaning inside all nouns...<br>And in my earlier life I did just that, same as so many of you did. &nbsp;The music of the &apos;60&apos;s &amp; &apos;70&apos;s was to me what jazz bebop was to Jack &nbsp;I also delved into the jazz of his time and the artists he named in his books and dug it intensely as i still do. <br>The influence of jazz on his writing style and purpose and efforts he writes about often and plainly states in the beginning of Mexico City Blues.<br>I have read widely and deeply in poetry and literature and appreciate many writers and have a deep fondness and even love for many as I recognize the gifts they possessed -- including the ones driven by their mania or their melancholy, their fears their terrors, their angst cravings, their visions and voices, their hunger for grace their courting of darkness and death, their turning the stuff off life in nature and the nature of being human the stuff of storms in the sky and storms in their heads and hearts and turning all this into ART, poetry, literature, painting, sculpture, and innumerable other ways of creating. <br><br>The word poetry in Greek means &quot;To Make&quot;.<br>As a poet myself, Kerouac remains a constant and a touchstone from my very early years, always bringing me a secret smile of appreciation for the force he released into the world through his one-of-a-kind expressions of jazz-like brilliance inscribed on the page his words like musical notes spontaneously creating unspeakable visions Blake-like and Bird-like compositions in his poems his sketches and his many books compiled together as the Legend of Duluoz.<br>Farewell and feel the spirit!

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• JU

  @Jupiterbotz · 2 years ago

  Kerouac changed my life and has led me to great joy and great sorrow but I have always been ALIVE. Thanks, Jack, for the kick in the face. I love you.

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• MI

  @mickjh55 · 2 years ago

  My dad was Jack Kerouac, (real name Dennis Hotte) but lived the same life as Jack. He was born in 1924 and passed away Dec. 12, 2023, 2 months before his 100th birthday! My dad traveled the country at least 40 times. He was born in Holyoke MA, his mom and dad from Canada, and I was born in CA.1955, what a long, strange trip it&apos;s been!

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• BO

  @bonnievysotsky6311 · 2 years ago

  Dr.Yorston, my parents were neighbors of Jack in St.Pete.My dad was a Beatnik and great admirer. He would mow Jack&apos;s lawn and then they would sit in the yard drinking beer. When I was 2 ( a few years after his death) I wondered off and Stella found me and played with me in the front yard until my parents came looking for me.

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• WN

  @WNYfellow · 9 months ago

  Your channel deserves 1 million subscribers - &nbsp;but my guess is that&apos;s not your goal or even your desire. &nbsp;Your desire is to create something of quality - &nbsp;and that you have achieved.

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