Jack Kerouac: The Origins of the Beat Generation
Jan 19, 2024
The word Beat originally meant poor, down, and out, deadbeat, on the bum, sad, sleeping in subways. Now that the word is belonging officially it is being made to stretch to include people who do not sleep in subways but have a certain new gesture, or attitude, which I can only describe as a new ‘more’(42).
Kerouac, Jack. “The Origins of the Beat Generation.” Playboy. HMH Publishing, 1959, pp. 31 -42