Jack Kerouac and Naropa University

I decided to read some additional novels by Jack Kerouac, after listening to a series of lectures about the beat poets from Naropa University, which have been posted at http://www.archive.org. I had not read “Big Sur” previously, and decided that it looked interesting. It is a study of a person going mad, as you read it you realize that all of the supporting characters are helpless, even though they don’t want to be.

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