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#existential ✱ Edward Maupin

kerouac and existential freedom

Jack Kerouac published “On the Road” in 1957 and The Dharma Bums in 1960, expressing a mode of immediacy and unconstraint which inspired a generation raised in Eisenhower prosperity and McCarthy fear, Kerouac and his travelling companions were pointing the way to existential freedom. influencing a generation which, a decade later, were to be coaching the flower children

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  1. heron duoton

    It has been a while since I published a newsletter. I’ve been ‘busy’ with some worthy but mostly profane distractions. I made the drawing of the