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53 years ago, on September 5th, 1957, Jack Kerouac published On the Road -- by the time I came along to get my bit of inspiration from it, the book had become a key piece of history and of national consciousness already; imagine what a thing it must have been in 1957! Here is Jack on the Steve Allen Show in 1959, answering some questions, speaking about Dean, reading the final paragraph of his book:

posted afternoon of Sunday, September 5th, 2010
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A Road movie like "Lolita". The protagonists of the two books even passed through Colorado at about the same time.

posted evening of September 5th, 2010 by John Emerson

Oh cool -- imagine Humbert Humbert picking up a hitchhiking Dean M.

posted evening of September 5th, 2010 by Jeremy

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