#virginia slim 120's

[jmz138]

#smoking 120s #smokingvanessa #hot women who love smoking cigarettes #smoking #cigarette dangle #virginia slims 120's

[emeraldexplorer2]

1986

#smoking #smoking cigarette #sexy smoking #cigarette #sexy smoker #cigarettes #cigarette ad #cigarette ads #1986 #virginia slims 120's #virginia sl #virginia slims

[texy120s]

Who misses Ariel and her 120’s?

Been a long time since I’ve seen anything of her…she was one of the greats. Her and a 120 really compliment each other.

#Ariel #smoking #Virginia slims 120’s #Capri 120’s #smoking women #More 120’s

[120smistress]

vintage VS120‘s ad

#VS120‘s ad #VS120s #VS120mm #Virginia Slims 120‘s

[vs120shound]

Alex from Australia (Alexa) began her SF career with SmokeVision, as did her BFF, Maddy. Each transferred over to the other Mega-SF website from Down Under. Alex was simply marvelous on her own!

ALEX AS A 'SNAPPER' OUTSTANDING SOLO! UNREAL WITH MADDY!

No doubt that the best SF videos she cut were with BFF Maddy. Both started out in the SF game with SmokeVision. Both later left and found work with the "rival" SF website, R.S. But it was with SV, that they were captured together in several highly memorable and utterly magnificent videos! Both did fine on their own at their new SF House in which most of their SF scenes were shot and marketed!

Dual-Media , 8-Post, 34-Pack Megapost!

Alex is a nice and trustworthy Marlboro 100s Girl but she's been spotted in videos and stills with Virginia Slims 120s Luxury Lights (precursor to Gold Pack). Kind of the same brand breakdown for her partner in crime, Maddy. And there's a video of her within this post's assets in which Alex and Maddy are playing cards and they break out Benson & Hedges 100 that they each devour with style, elan and grace. Our Centerpiece video comes from Instagram, off of IG@smoke4life22's page that was downloaded on August 30, 2022.

Photos of Alex!

From our archives! . . .

From our archives! . . .

Previous Posts in Our Domain of Alex (or Alex with Maddy)!

From lostlighter23 on December 30, 2023 . . .

From vs120shound-2 on December 30, 2023 . . .

From lostlighter23 on December 22, 2023 . . .

Video of Alex on Social Media!

From Instagram@josephvsmoking on July 11, 2023 . . .

#SF #Hot women who love smoking cigarettes #Smoking cigarettes #Smoking #Alex from SmokeVision (Australia)! #Alex with R.S. (Australia)! #Alex with BFF Maddy! #Instagram@smoke4life22! #Instagram@josephvsmoking!

[lostlighter23-darkside]

Ali, "smokingbabygirl" on Social Media platforms, is a veteran on our network as well as within lostlighter23-darkside. She is not wearing makeup when she lights-up a Virginia Slims 120 Gold Pack Menthol!

SMOKINGBABYGIRL ALI LIGHTS-UP HER VS120s MENTHOLS GOLD PACK!

Posed before on this blog! But what is Ali most proud about of her new offerings to the world? Her cigarette smoking habit with kick-ass menthol brands ⏤ Newport 100s and Viriginia Slims 120s Gold Pack Menthols ⏤ that is close to being in its third year, or her fantastic, state-of-the-art enhancement / augmentation of her breasts? Probably a tie!

Ali is also proud of her status as a Smoking Slut. OK, she's a BHYSW (Beautiful Hot, Young Smoking Woman) as well. She's many things to many of us! She is an Honorable Mention selection for the "unofficial" official Top-25 all-time favorite SF models list released on vs120shound in January of this year. That was a "no brainer!" She loves smoking! She loves sex! She loves playing the role for her husband and manager, athensdaddy. They are from Georgia (U.S.A.). Their game is simple and not for many women. They advertise on their Social Media platforms, advertising willing participants to win time with her for sexual intercourse, arranged by her husband. Payment is involved. The liaisons are taped and posted. Great, nasty fun. She eats it up. Her husband's M.O., and he is in his 50s (Ali pushing 30 y.o.), was to find young women, just out of their teens ⏤ or about to be ⏤ and to seduce them into his lifestyle. He turns them out (into smokers. that is; all of them are N-S when he meets them), gets into super kinky sex with them and, for his reward, they become unrepentant heavily-addicted Smoking Sluts. Ali is the quintessential Smoking Slut, for athensdaddy . . . and for many of us as well. Ali is the prime example of starting to smoke in her mid- to late-20s in the most seductive and alluring way! By far! With no rival! No others possible, most likely! She has earned her classifications as a Smoking Goddess and SF Hall of Famer!

Sometimes it is hard to follow what Ali is speaking about. It has been postulated within the Greater SF World Community scene that the substances she is "abusing" are affecting her ability to formulate coherent sentences. How poorly she is communicating is subjective, to say the least. Just a heads-up!

Previous Posts on Our Brand of Ali, Smokingbabygirl!

From lostlighter23-darkside on November 15, 2023 . . .

"Keep it in your pants!"

#SF #Hot women who love smoking cigarettes #Smoking cigarettes #Smoking #Naughty women who like to smoke and show off! #Smokingbabygirl Ali! #athensdaddy!

[mistimenthol]

Hey gorgeous. When are you going to bust out the Virginia Slims 120's? The pink latex is hot af! Do you have any other social media platforms?

VS120s are getting harder to come by in the city and esp my neighborhood, nit to mention being $20 a pack so I'm not sure when ill have the again. My instagram is mistimenthol https://www.sextpanther.com/MistiMenthol/ and for my camshows: https://www.camsoda.com/MODEL_USERNAME?id=mistimenthol2&type=REV

#bimbo doll #sexy smoker #girl smoking #smoking #transfem #trans smoking #pink aesthetic #cigarette #smoking cigarette

[vslims120s]

Shes so beautiful puffing up on her Virginia Slims Menthol Gold 120's. 😍

[emeraldexplorer2]

1985

#smoking #smoking cigarette #sexy smoking #cigarette #sexy smoker #cigarettes #cigarette ad #cigarette ads #virginia slims 120's #120's #virginia slims #1985

[mytheoristavenue]

What the Bebop crew smokes HCs

Just a fun little set of headcanons compiled of what type of cigarettes the crew and company smokes. Obviously, these won’t be canon, as at least in Spike’s case, the popular brand is ‘Xing Moa’. These will also be out of an American selection, at least to my knowledge, but it’s just for fun!

Spike

Spike currently smokes Lucky Strike Menthol Silver 100′s. During his days with the sydnicate, his preference was Marlboro Special Select Red 100′s, but he made the switch to Marlboro menthols after he lost Julia. She always smoked menthols, so it was a way for him to remember what her kiss tasted like, which kept him going. When he met Jet and began hunting with him, he swtiched to Lucky Strikes to save money.

Faye

Faye, no doubt smokes Misty Light 120′s. It’s one of the few things she remembers from her childhood, her mother smoked them, so when she began smoking after she reawoke in the hospital, she immediatly took to them. They always make her feel a bit fancy, to be honest, almost like she’s a movie star, puffing away at a cigarette holder. They fit her personality quiet well in that respect.

Jet

Jet stopped smoking years ago, wanting to set a good example for Edward, but before he stopped, he perfered Pall Mall Red 100′s, but after he teamed up with Spike, he made the switch to Lucky Strike Full Flavor 100′s. After finding Ed, he stopped smoking nearly entirely, but on the very rare occassion, Jet enjoys a cigar, but only when the time is right. Sometimes after a good hunt, he’ll go to a corner store and pick up a few Black and Mild Jazz Woodtip cigars, and then sometimes, after a great hunt, he finds himself a case of cubans, but then again, he’s only had two or three of those.

Julia

Julia has always smoked Virginia Slims Menthol Silvers. She was raised on a mentality that she needed to keep an air of class about her at all times, and her taste in tobacco reflects that. She never did smoke until she met Vicious, and at that time, she felt as if she needed to take up the habit in order to fit into the sydicate.

Vicious

Vicious smokes Marlboro Ice. The intense taste gives him a feeling of power, and he loves it.

#cowboy bebop #cowboy bebop spike #Cowboy Bebop Faye #cowboy bebop jet #cowboy bebop julia #spike spiegel #cowboy bebop vicious #Headcanon #cowboy bebop headcanons #cigarettes #marlboro #misty lights #virginia slim #black and mild #we love spike spiegel

[theeyeofsatori]

My Mawmaw’s Colors, her kitchen was baby blue and white, she cooked peanut butter fudge in a cast iron skillet. She had colorful bingo markers and orange slice gummy candy. We played Rummikub, as she drank her diet coke and smoked her virginia slim 120′s, she had a can crusher in the back porch and white magnolia trees in the backyard. I get bread and go feed the cows and blackberry bushes to pick. Dementia is rough, she doesn’t know my name or remember me at all..... I yearn to hear her say my name... maybe when I return to the stars, she will be there waiting.

#grandma #mawmaw #love #heaven #heavenonearth #nirvana #bliss #happiness #dementia #old #sadness #tornapart #louisiana #baton rouge #houma louisiana #bayoublue #childhood #memories #goodtimes #angel #macro #flower #hydrangea #blue #transphotographer #lgbt #missingher #bestfriend #cajun #born on the bayou

[vs120shound]

Natasha Marley, of Russian heritage, was a vision with Marlboro 100s and Virginia Slims 120s Luxury Lights Menthols and Non-Menthols!

VIDEO OF THE WEEK 🚬 🚬 (SF HALL OF FAME) 🚬 NUMBER 10 IN THE SERIES!

For the Week of 103023-110523

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ | Four-and-a-Half "Stars"

From vs120shound staff | ★★★★★ (13 total: L)

Dual-Media 9-Post, 33-Pack Megapost!

Pretty Blonde with VS120s Luxury Lights Menthols!

Natasha Marley: A Vision of Pure Beauty!

Natasha Marley, who grew up in the U.K. of Russian parents, is one of the prettiest women in the Greater SF World Community scene. We say she is among the 10 prettiest SF Models/SF Entrepreneurs/Social Media Smoking Darlings-Social Network Cigarette Girls. She landed at No. 23 on our "unofficial" official Top-25 all-time favorite SF models list published on vs120shound released in January 2023. That was too low on the list, ought to have been higher, we proclaim in hindsight (Ah! 20/20 vision in retrospect!). Expect to see her in the Top-15 the next time we get around to re-compiling "The List" many months or a couple of years from now. We'll let you digest this Video of The Week | Hall of Fame division post to assess and rate her beauty and smoking style/power as you feel, as you see fit, as how it strikes your fancy. We simply adore her look, style, elegance and classiness!

. . . well, Ms. Marley, now a mother of two young children and retired from the public eye, was one of the more prolific SF models on the Smoking-Models (U.K.) family of SF websites. She appeared in 29 projects, 17 on Smoking-Models and 12 for www.ElegantSmoking.com. Her term with S-M began on September 14, 2009 and finished on June 1, 2020 -- and we believe those are dates of the videos' release not filming or completion of production -- and her career with ElegantSmoking started on July 31, 2009 and ended on April 9, 2020.

Her Instagram account, IG@therealnatashamarley, nearly has been scrubbed clean of any evidence of her smoking. The informed guess is that she has left cigarettes behind for a healthier lifestyle and to be a better role model for her young, impressionable children. One image remains and that is an IG@smoking_temptresses post that was added, ostensibly by Natasha or the folk(s) running her IG page. Kind of stick out now, we'd say. Cannot pretend the past did not exist. It can be revisited and changes can be made in lifestyle, career and life paths from what was experienced and learned during someone's past. Could be the case here.

This is a grand Megapost! effort by us. Several others of them on our brand have had more packs but this is the most content. What is a pack exactly (not done elsewhere and we've never explained, so here goes . . . )?

A pack for our purposes is an SF image, and there are three kinds -- GIF; photograph; video. A "post" is also a pack but, of course, it almost never is one image, ordinarily several or many but not exceeding 30 photos because that's the tumblr maximum.

It might be nice to see others in the tumblr SF-Content posting realm move forward with such an approach but that is unlikely. We're fine with the standard, traditional one-photo or one-video or one-GIF style the everyone else employs; we continue to do it ourselves but rarely nowadays. We love the great SF blogs/vlogs/webpages on tumblr, from which we re-blog mostly now on vs120shound-2. Our favorites -- and we realize some of you who follow us are aware of our preferences -- seem to be recently thelibrarian120, gomerianworld, smokingscholar, rtpsmk, qwerty53421, thesmokegod (zeusbabes) and blackmaca13, to name a likely Top-7 for us. Those wonderful pages are one photo or one video or one GIF. And they are sensational, extraordinary at it. And there is a lot creativity out there, just not Megaposts!, which take a lot of time to prepare, produce and publish. We're fine with that. We are comfortable with it. It works for us. We do this for you all ("y'all" . . . lived in Texas for 18 months) and for us, for our entertainment.

Speaking of our favorite tumblr SF blogs . . . we thank smokingscholar whose post is "re-blogged" in our style for our VOTW | Hall of Fame division post here today! That post from "The Scholar" on April 27, 2023 has received 267 positive responses, likes/re-blogs thus far! That video we've seen before but in an edited down version, so it was a treat for us to see at full length. Hope you enjoy.

THE MEDIA!

Natasha Marley on YouTube!

From YT's "smoking girl" webpage, with Jenna Hoskins, in 2018 . . .

The 'Super' Re-Blogged Post from 'The Scholar!'

From vs120shound on April 27, 2023 . . .

Natasha Marley Posts on Our Network!

From lostlighter23 on June 27, 2023 (Photo of The Day) . . .

From vs120shound on August 31, 2023 . . .

From vs120shound on January 5, 2023 ("The List" -- Top-25 all-time favorite SF models, No. 23) . . .

From vs120shound on November 7, 2022, in a re-blog from a post by blackmaca13 . . .

From vs120shound on August 20, 2022 . . .

From vs120shound on August 15, 2023 (leading off the first two spots in a photo assortment of various SF models/actresses . . .

From vs120shound on June 21, 2022 (leading off another assortment compilation) . . .

From vs120shound on March 9, 2022, a re-blog from a post by thesmokegod . . .

Natasha Marley Nowadays!

From Instagram@therealnatashamarley on March 19, 2023 . . .

Video from IG@smoking_temptresses on December 16, 2022 . . .

ANCHOR PHOTO OF NATASHA MARLEY!

This VOTW | Hall of Fame division post is being published on December 6, 2023 at 11:12 a.m. EST. It was produced on Dec. 4-6, 2023 over a period of five-and-a-half hours but was well worth the planning, effort and energy! Thanks for your support and interest in our "work!"

#SF #Hot women who love smoking cigarettes #Smoking cigarettes #Smoking #The Video of The Week (Honorable Mention)! #The Video of The Week (HoF) . . . Hall of Fame! #Natasha Marley of ElegantSmoking (U.K.)! #No. 23 on The List for the Top-25 all-time favorite SF models! #Youtube

[alexandrematiasreal]

The Filmography 2019 - List Trailers Edition

The Filmography 2019

001- GRETA 002- Framing John Delorean 003- Ford v Ferrari 004- Finding Steve McQueen 005- Men in Black International 006- Murder Mystery 007- Jumanji - The Next Level 008- Jexi 009- Sextuplets 010- GRETA 011- Knives Out 012- CATS 013- Blinded By the Light (Spider-Man - Far From Home audio) 014- Spider-Man - Far From Home 015- Playmobil - The Movie 016- LUCE (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood audio) 017- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 018- John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum 019- Men in Black International 020- Knives Out 021- The Art of Self Defense 022- The Kid Who Would Be King (Spider-Man - Far From Home audio) 023- Dead Trigger 024- Spider-Man - Far From Home 025- Hellboy 026- Ford v Ferrari 027- Alita Battle Angel 028- Tyler Perry´s A Madea Family Funeral 029- Angel Has Hallen 030- Hellboy 031- The Kid 032- The King 033- Avengement 034- Dragged Across Concrete 035- Bottom Of The 9th 036- Family 037- Farming 038- Hellboy 039- Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 040- FREAKS 041- Good Boys 042- Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 043- The Kitchen 044- John Wick Chpater 3 - Parabellum 045- Good Boys 046- Wonder Park 047- Ophelia (Wonder Park audio) 048- Outlawed (Wonder Park audio) 049- ABOMINABLE 050- UglyDolls 051- Charlie´s Angels 052- Aladdin 053- John Wick Chpater 3 - Parabellum 054- Playmobil - The Movi 055- Slaughterhouse Rulez 056- Being Frank 057- A Shaun The Sheep The Movie 058- Tyler Perry´s A Madea Faily Funeral 059- Missing Link 060- The Angry Birds Movie 2 061- The Secret Life Of Pets 2 062- Avengers - Endgame 063- The Hustle 064- The Farewell 065- The Hummingbird Project 066- Aother Shot 067- The Secret Life Of Pets 2 068- Tolkien 069- Triple Threat 070- This is Not Berlin 071- Shadow 072- Tolkien 073- 6 Underground 074- Charlie´s Angels 075- Triple Threat 076- 1917 077- Togo 078- Toy Story 4 079- What Men Want 080- Shazam! 081- Alita Battle Angel 082- Booksmart 083- Captain Marvel 084- Dumbo 085- Frozen 2 086- Gemini Man 087- Frozen 2 088- Aladdin 089- Midway 090- Lucy in the Sky 091- JOKER 092- Fast & Furius Presents Hobs & Shaw 093- Midway 094- Turma da Mônica - Laços 095- Dora and the Lost City of Gold 096- Avengers - Endgame 097- Men in Black International 098- Hellboy 099- Dora ad the Lost City of Gold 100- Wonder Park 101- Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker 102- Noelle 103- Ode to Joy 104- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 105- Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker 106- Men in Black International 107- The Kid Who Be king 108- Avengers - Endgame 109- X-Men - Dark Phoenix 110- Captain Marvel 111- X-Men - Dark Phoenix 112- Daniel Isn´t Real 113- Bacurau (Avengers - Endgame audio) 114- Shazam!(Avengers - Endgame audio) 115- Avengers - Endgame 116- Godzilla - King of Monsters 117- How to Train Your Dragon - The Hidden World 118- The Divine Fury 119- Escape Plan The Extractors 120- X-Men - Dark Phoenix 121- How to Train Your Dragon - The Hidden World 122- The Lion King 123- Godzilla - King of Monsters 124- Fast & Furius Presents Hobs & Shaw 125- Jojo Rabbit 126- Long Shot 127- Miss Bala 128- Maleficent Mistress of Evil 129- Jumanji - The Next Level 130- White Snake 131- Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker 132- Maleficent Mistress of Evil 133- SHAFT 134- Rocketman 135- Spies in Disguise 136- Maleficent Mistress of Evil 137- Playing With Fire 138-Sword of Trust 139- T-34 140- Terminator - Dark Fate 141- Rambo Last Blood 142- Replicas 143- Spider-Man - Far From Home 144- Terminator - Dark Fate 145- Spider-Man - Far From Home 146- Fast & Furius Presents Hobs & Shaw 147- POKEMON - Detective Pikachu 148- Spies in Disguise 149- Stuber 150- Fast & Furius Presents Hobs & Shaw 151- Shazam! 152- IDFA 153- Fronteras 154- The Informer 155- Ip Man 4 156- John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum 157- The Liong King 158- Master Z 159- The LEGO Movie 2 The Second Part (Avengers - Endgame audio) 160- The Monkey Prince (Avengers - Endgame audio) 191- Avengers - Endgame 192- SERENITY 193- The Dead Don´t Die 194- Zombieland - Double Tap (TRolls World Tour audio) 195- The Dead Don´t Die 196- Relaxer 197- Late Night 198- The Hustle 199- The Public 200- Red Joan (The Public audio) 201- JOKER (The Public audio) 202- Wild Rose (The Public audio) 203- Divide And Conuer - The Story of roger Ailes 204- Nada a Perder 2 205- Ad Astra 206- Parasite 207- Uncut Gems 208- El Camino A Breaking Bad Movie 209- Lords of Chaos 210- Ladyworld (JOKER audio) 211- A Vigilante (JOKER audio) 212- SKIN (JOKER audio) 213- Dumbo (JOKER audio) 214- JOKER 215- Us 216- Midsommar (Us audio) 217- Never Grow Old 218- The Death of Dick Long 219- The Gangster, the Cop, The Devil (The Art Self Defense audio) 220- Cold Pursuit 221- Gemini Man 222- Glass 223- Captain Marvel 224- SAVAGE 225- Trolls World Tour 226- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Doctor Sleep audio) 227- The Isle (Doctor Sleep audio) 228- The Intruder (Doctor Sleep audio) 229- The Lodge (Doctor Sleep audio) 230- Under the Silver Lake 231- Alita Battle Angel 232- The Strangers - Prey at Night 233- 83rd Street 234- We Have Always Lived in the Castle 235- X-Men - Dark Phoenix 236- Monos 237- Glass 238- SERENITY 239- The Unicorn 240- My Evil Stepdad 241- Saint Maud 242- SERENITY 243- Saint Maud 244- The Mountain 245- The Guilty 246- The Hummingbird Project 247- BOZE CIALO 248- Marighella (Her Smell audio) 249- Her Smell 250- In Fabric 251- King of Thieves 252- Trading Pait 253- Dark Waters (Harriet audio) 254- The Professor and the Madman (Harriet audio) 255- After 256- American Woman 257- Angel Has Fallen 258- Tone-Deaf 259- Toy Story 4 260- The Vanishig 261- Tresspassers 262- The Souvenir 263- The Standoff at Sparrow Creek 264- Into The Ashes 265- BIG SHARK 266- Child´s Play 267- Better Days 268- Accident 269- Child´s Play 270- Dead Water 271- JUDY 272- Don´t Let Go 273- Fighting With My Family 274- Eli 275- Scary Story to Tell in the Dark 276- Knives out 277- JOKER 278- Pet Sematary 279- Look Away 280- The Final Wish (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly vil and Vile audio) 281- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly vil and Vile 282- Queen & Slim 283- Play or Die 284- Polaroid 285- Project Ithaca 286- Replicas 287- the Nightingale (The LEGO Movie 2 The Second Part audio) 288- Songbird (The LEGO Movie 2 The Second Part audio) 289- The LEGO Movie 2 The Second Part 290- Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker 291- Missing Link 292- Shazam! 293- Trolls World Tour 294- The Lighhouse 295- Angel of Mine 296- It Chapter Two 297- Crawl 298- Motherless Brooklyn 299- Godzilla - King of Monsters 300- Happy Death Day 2U 301- It Chapter Two 302- Hotel Mumbai 303- Annabelle Comes Home 304- 3 From Hell (Motherless Brooklyn audio) 305- Black and Blue (Motherless Brooklyn audio) 306- Motherless Brooklyn 307- The Kitche 308- It Chapter Two 309- Doctor Sleep (Jacob´s Ladder audio) 310- Jacob´s Ladder 311- Ready or Not 312- Richard Jewell 313- The Beach Bum 314- The Command 315- Brightburn 316- The Curse of La Llorona 317- Night Hunter 318- Escape Room (Night Hunter audio) 319- Teacher 320- Hagazussa 321- The Haunting of Sharon Tate 322- The Edge of Democracy 323- A Odisseia dos Tontos 324- A Scoreo Settle 325- 21 Bridges 326- Bombshell 327- The Irishman 328- Secrets 329- Out of Blue 330- Rambo Last Blood 331- The Mustang 332- Pain and Glory 333- Light of My Life 334- Avengers - Endgame 335- Yesterday 336- The Death of John F. Donovan 337- Breakthrough (Motherless Brooklyn audio) 338- Lady and the Tramp (Motherless Brooklyn audio) 339- Extremely Wicked,, Shockingly Evil and Vile 340- Ladies in Black 341- Five Feet Apart 342- CATS 343- Astronaut 344- Baristas 345- Head Count 346- Frozen 2 347- POKEMON - Detective Pikachu 348- the Last Tree 349- The sun is Also a Star 350- The Aftermath 351- POKEMON - Detective Pikachu 352- APOLLO 11 353- Ad Astra (The Lion King audio) 354- Lucy in the Sky (The Lion King audio) 355- Harriet (The Lion King audio) 356- Don´t Come Back From The Moon) 357- Penguins 358- The Goldfinch 359- Nada a Perder 2 360- Downton Abbey 361- Ice on Fire 362- The Biggest Little Farm 363- ICEMAN 364- Honeyland (The Peanut Butter Falcon audio) 365- Where´d You Go Bernadette (The Peanut Butter Falcon audio) 367- Midsommar (The Peanut Butter Falcon audio) 368- The Peanut Butter Falcon 369- Marriage Story 370- The Peanut Butter Falcon 371- Father The Flame 372- Toni Morrison the Pieces I Am 373- Spider-Man - Far From Home 374- Fighting With My Family 375- Little Women 376- The Aeronauts 377- Loro 378- Low Tide 379- Nancy Drew and the Hidden 380- Hardball The Girls of Summer 381- Katie Says Goodbye 382- Overcome 383- Paradise Hills 384- The Lion King 385- Minha Mãe é Uma Peça 3 - O Filme 386- The Last Black Man in San Francisco 387- Spider in the Web 388- The Art of Racing in the Rain 389- Drunk Parents 390- Superpower Dogs 391- The Angry Birds Movie 2 392- The Beach Bum 393- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 394- Good Boys 395- Tyrel 396- UglyDolls 397- Under The Eiffel Tower 398- Summer Night 399- JUDY 400- Wine Calling 401- Zombieland - Double Tap 402- A Vida Invisível 403- The Good Liar 404- Dumbo 405- Blinded By the Light 406- Papi Chulo 407- Peel 408- Burn Your Maps 409- Malificent Mistress of Evil 410- Super Size Me 2 411- Catching Faith 2 The Homecoming 412- Chasing The Dragon 2 413- Divaldo - O Mensageiro da Paz 414- Dolemite Is My Name 415- Ms. Purple 416- Ophelia 417- Run the Race 418- Last Christmas 419- BEL-AIR 420- Berlin, I Love You 421- Booksmart 422- A Hidden Life 423- A Beatiful Day In The Neighborhood 424- Antiquities 425- Little 426- Giant Little Ones 427- Gloria Bell 428- Semper Fi 429- The Black Godfather 430- The Bronx, USA 431- The Parting Glass 432- The Pass 433- The Professor 434- The Quiet One 435- Tolkien 436- The Upside 437- Us 438- Waves 439- Queen & Slim 440- The Two Popes 441- Yesterday 442- Vita and Virginia 443- A Dog´s Journey 444- A Dog´s Way Home 445- The Mustang 446- On Becoming a God in Central Florida 447- The Mountain 448- All is True 449- Amazing Grace 450- Con permisito dijo Monchito 451- Charlie´s Angels 452- ABOMINABLE 453- Toy Story 4 454- Aladdin 455- Rocketman 456- Western Stars 457- How To Train Your Dragon Hidden World 458- Shazam!

[nowontheroad]

On the Road a novel by Jack Kerouac

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel, published in 1957, is a roman à clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise.

The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. After several film proposals dating from 1957, the book was finally made into a film, On the Road(2012), produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is."[1] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.[2]

Contents

1Production and publication

2Plot

3Reception

4Influence

5Film adaptation

6Beat Generation

7See also

8References

9Further reading

10External links

2.1Part One

2.2Part Two

2.3Part Three

2.4Part Four

2.5Part Five

2.6Characters

3.1Initial reaction

3.2Critical study

Production and publication

After Kerouac dropped out of Columbia University, he served on several different sailing vessels before returning to New York to write. He met and mixed with Beat Generation figures Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. Between 1947 and 1950, while writing what would become The Town and the City (1950), Kerouac engaged in the road adventures that would form On the Road.[3] Kerouac carried small notebooks, in which much of the text was written as the eventful span of road trips unfurled. He started working on the first of several versions of the novel as early as 1948, based on experiences during his first long road trip in 1947. However, he remained dissatisfied with the novel.[4] Inspired by a 1000-word rambling letter from his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac in 1950 outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz.[5] In a letter to a student in 1961, Kerouac wrote: "Dean and I were embarked on a journey through post-Whitman America to find that America and to find the inherent goodness in American man. It was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. And we found him."[6]

The first draft of what was to become the published novel was written in three weeks in April 1951, while Kerouac lived with Joan Haverty, his second wife, at 454 West 20th Street in New York City's Manhattan. The manuscript was typed on what he called "the scroll"—a continuous, 120-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together.[7] The roll was typed single-spaced, without margins or paragraph breaks. In the following years, Kerouac continued to revise this manuscript, deleting some sections (including some sexual depictions deemed pornographic in the 1950s) and adding smaller literary passages.[8] Kerouac wrote a number of inserts intended for On the Road between 1951 and 1952, before eventually omitting them from the manuscript and using them to form the basis of another work, Visions of Cody (1951–1952).[9] On the Road was championed within Viking Press by Malcolm Cowley and was published by Viking in 1957, based on revisions of the 1951 manuscript.[10] Besides differences in formatting, the published novel was shorter than the original scroll manuscript and used pseudonyms for all of the major characters.

Viking Press released a slightly edited version of the original manuscript titled On the Road: The Original Scroll (August 16, 2007), corresponding with the 50th anniversary of original publication. This version has been transcribed and edited by English academic and novelist Dr. Howard Cunnell. As well as containing material that was excised from the original draft due to its explicit nature, the scroll version also uses the real names of the protagonists, so Dean Moriarty becomes Neal Cassady and Carlo Marx becomes Allen Ginsberg, etc.[11]

In 2007, Gabriel Anctil, a journalist of Montreal daily Le Devoir, discovered in Kerouac's personal archives in New York almost 200 pages of his writings entirely in Quebec French, with colloquialisms. The collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of On the Road, written on January 19, 1951. The date of the writings makes Kerouac one of the earliest known authors to use colloquial Quebec French in literature.[12]

The original scroll of On The Road was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million (equivalent to $3.29 million in 2016). It has occasionally been made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004 and 2012, the scroll was displayed in a number of museums and libraries in the United States, Ireland, and the UK. It was exhibited in Paris in the summer of 2012 to celebrate the movie based on the book.[13]

Plot

The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, three of them describing road trips with Moriarty. The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, "somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis." The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady.

Part One

The first section describes Sal's first trip to San Francisco. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes when he meets Dean Moriarty, who is "tremendously excited with life," and begins to long for the freedom of the road: "Somewhere along the line I knew there would be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me." He sets off in July 1947 with fifty dollars in his pocket. After taking several buses and hitchhiking, he arrives in Denver, where he hooks up with Carlo Marx, Dean, and their friends. There are parties—among them an excursion to the ghost town of Central City. Eventually Sal leaves by bus and gets to San Francisco, where he meets Remi Boncoeur and his girlfriend Lee Ann. Remi arranges for Sal to take a job as a night watchman at a boarding camp for merchant sailors waiting for their ship. Not holding this job for long, Sal hits the road again. "Oh, where is the girl I love?" he wonders. Soon he meets Terry, the "cutest little Mexican girl," on the bus to Los Angeles. They stay together, traveling back to Bakersfield, then to Sabinal, "her hometown," where her family works in the fields. He meets Terry's brother Ricky, who teaches him the true meaning of "mañana" ("tomorrow"). Working in the cotton fields, Sal realizes that he is not made for this type of work. Leaving Terry behind, he takes the bus back to Times Square New York, bums a quarter off a preacher who looks the other way, arrives at his Aunt's house in Paterson, just missing Dean, who had come to see him, by two days.

Part Two

In December 1948 Sal is celebrating Christmas with his relatives in Testament, Virginia, when Dean shows up with Marylou (having left his second wife, Camille, and their newborn baby, Amy, in San Francisco) and Ed Dunkel. Sal's Christmas plans are shattered as "now the bug was on me again, and the bug's name was Dean Moriarty." First they drive to New York, where they meet Carlo and party. Dean wants Sal to make love to Marylou, but Sal declines. In Dean's Hudson they take off from New York in January 1949 and make it to New Orleans. In Algiers they stay with the morphine-addicted Old Bull Lee and his wife Jane. Galatea Dunkel joins her husband in New Orleans while Sal, Dean, and Marylou continue their trip. Once in San Francisco, Dean again leaves Marylou to be with Camille. "Dean will leave you out in the cold anytime it is in the interest of him," Marylou tells Sal. Both of them stay briefly in a hotel, but soon she moves out, following a nightclub owner. Sal is alone and on Market Street has visions of past lives, birth, and rebirth. Dean finds him and invites him to stay with his family. Together, they visit nightclubs and listen to Slim Gaillard and other jazz musicians. The stay ends on a sour note: "what I accomplished by coming to Frisco I don't know," and Sal departs, taking the bus back to New York.

Part Three

In the spring of 1949, Sal takes a bus from New York to Denver. He is depressed and lonesome; none of his friends are around. After receiving some money, he leaves Denver for San Francisco to see Dean. Camille is pregnant and unhappy, and Dean has injured his thumb trying to hit Marylou for sleeping with other men. Camille throws them out, and Sal invites Dean to come to New York, planning to travel further to Italy. They meet Galatea, who tells Dean off: "You have absolutely no regard for anybody but yourself and your kicks." Sal realizes she is right—Dean is the "HOLY GOOF"—but also defends him, as "he's got the secret that we're all busting to find out." After a night of jazz and drinking in Little Harlem on Folsom Street, they depart. On the way to Sacramento they meet a "fag", who propositions them. Dean tries to hustle some money out of this but is turned down. During this part of the trip Sal and Dean have ecstatic discussions having found "IT" and "TIME". In Denver a brief argument shows the growing rift between the two, when Dean reminds Sal of his age, Sal being the older of the two. They get a '47 Cadillac from a travel bureau that needs to be brought to Chicago. Dean drives most of the way, crazy, careless, often speeding over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), bringing it in a disheveled state. By bus they move on to Detroit and spend a night on Skid Row, Dean hoping to find his homeless father. From Detroit they share a ride to New York and arrive at Sal's aunt's new flat in Long Island. They go on partying in New York, where Dean meets Inez and gets her pregnant while his wife is expecting their second child.

Part Four

In the spring of 1950, Sal gets the itch to travel again while Dean is working as a parking lot attendant in Manhattan, living with his girlfriend Inez. Sal notices that he has been reduced to simple pleasures—listening to basketball games and looking at erotic playing cards. By bus Sal takes to the road again, passing Washington, D.C., Ashland, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and eventually reaching Denver. There he meets Stan Shephard, and the two plan to go to Mexico City when they learn that Dean has bought a car and is on the way to join them. In a rickety '37 Ford sedan the three set off across Texas to Laredo, where they cross the border. They are ecstatic, having left "everything behind us and entering a new and unknown phase of things." Their money buys more (10 cents for a beer), police are laid back, cannabis is readily available, and people are curious and friendly. The landscape is magnificent. In Gregoria, they meet Victor, a local kid, who leads them to a bordello where they have their last grand party, dancing to mambo, drinking, and having fun with prostitutes. In Mexico City Sal becomes ill from dysentery and is "delirious and unconscious." Dean leaves him, and Sal later reflects that "when I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes."

Part Five

Dean, having obtained divorce papers in Mexico, had first returned to New York to marry Inez, only to leave her and go back to Camille. After his recovery from dysentery in Mexico, Sal returns to New York in the fall. He finds a girl, Laura, and plans to move with her to San Francisco. Sal writes to Dean about his plan to move to San Francisco. Dean writes back saying that he's willing to come and accompany Laura and Sal. Dean arrives over five weeks early, but Sal is out taking a late-night walk alone. Sal returns home, sees a copy of Proust, and knows it is Dean's. Sal realizes his friend has arrived, but at a time when Sal doesn't have the money to relocate to San Francisco. On hearing this Dean makes the decision to head back to Camille. Sal's friend Remi Boncoeur denies Sal's request to give Dean a short lift to 40th Street on their way to a Duke Ellington concert at the Metropolitan Opera House. Sal's girlfriend Laura realises this is a painful moment for Sal and prompts him for a response as the party drives off without Dean. Sal replies: "He'll be alright". Sal later reflects as he sits on a river pier under a New Jersey night sky about the roads and lands of America that he has travelled and states: ". . . I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty."

Characters

Kerouac often based his fictional characters on friends and family.[14][15]

"Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same personae names in each work."[16]

Reception

The book received a mixed reaction from the media in 1957. Some of the earlier reviews spoke highly of the book, but the backlash to these was swift and strong. Although this was discouraging to Kerouac, he still received great recognition and notoriety from the work. Since its publication, critical attention has focused on issues of both the context and the style, addressing the actions of the characters as well as the nature of Kerouac's prose.

Initial reaction

In his review for The New York Times, Gilbert Millstein wrote, "its publication is a historic occasion in so far as the exposure of an authentic work of art is of any great moment in an age in which the attention is fragmented and the sensibilities are blunted by the superlatives of fashion" and praised it as "a major novel."[1] Millstein was already sympathetic toward the Beat Generation and his promotion of the book in the Times did wonders for its recognition and acclaim. Not only did he like the themes, but also the style, which would come to be just as hotly contested in the reviews that followed. "There are sections of On the Roadin which the writing is of a beauty almost breathtaking...there is some writing on jazz that has never been equaled in American fiction, either for insight, style, or technical virtuosity."[1] Kerouac and Joyce Johnson, a younger writer he was living with, read the review shortly after midnight at a newsstand at 69th Street and Broadway, near Joyce's apartment in the Upper West Side. They took their copy of the newspaper to a neighborhood bar and read the review over and over. "Jack kept shaking his head," Joyce remembered later in her memoir Minor Characters, "as if he couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t happier than he was." Finally, they returned to her apartment to go to sleep. As Joyce recalled: "Jack lay down obscure for the last time in his life. The ringing phone woke him the next morning, and he was famous.”[17]

The backlash began just a few days later in the same publication. David Dempsey published a review that contradicted most of what Millstein had promoted in the book. "As a portrait of a disjointed segment of society acting out of its own neurotic necessity, On the Road, is a stunning achievement. But it is a road, as far as the characters are concerned, that leads to nowhere." While he did not discount the stylistic nature of the text (saying that it was written "with great relish"), he dismissed the content as a "passionate lark" rather than a novel."[18]

Other reviewers were also less than impressed. Phoebe Lou Adams in Atlantic Monthly wrote that it "disappoints because it constantly promises a revelation or a conclusion of real importance and general applicability, and cannot deliver any such conclusion because Dean is more convincing as an eccentric than as a representative of any segment of humanity."[19] While she liked the writing and found a good theme, her concern was repetition. "Everything Mr. Kerouac has to say about Dean has been told in the first third of the book, and what comes later is a series of variations on the same theme."[19]

The review from Time exhibited a similar sentiment. "The post-World War II generation—beat or beatific—has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book, Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean."[20] It considers the book partly a travel book and partly a collection of journal jottings. While Kerouac sees his characters as "mad to live...desirous of everything at the same time," the reviewer likens them to cases of "psychosis that is a variety of Ganser Syndrome" who "aren't really mad—they only seem to be."[20]

Critical study

On the Road has been the object of critical study since its publication. David Brooks of The New York Times compiled several opinions and summarized them in an Op-Ed from October 2, 2007. Whereas Millstein saw it as a story in which the heroes took pleasure in everything, George Mouratidis, an editor of a new edition, claimed "above all else, the story is about loss." "It's a book about death and the search for something meaningful to hold on to—the famous search for 'IT,' a truth larger than the self, which, of course, is never found," wrote Meghan O'Rourke in Slate. "Kerouac was this deep, lonely, melancholy man," Hilary Holladay of the University of Massachusetts Lowell told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "And if you read the book closely, you see that sense of loss and sorrow swelling on every page." "In truth, 'On the Road' is a book of broken dreams and failed plans," wrote Ted Gioia in The Weekly Standard.[21]

John Leland, author of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think), says "We're no longer shocked by the sex and drugs. The slang is passé and at times corny. Some of the racial sentimentality is appalling" but adds "the tale of passionate friendship and the search for revelation are timeless. These are as elusive and precious in our time as in Sal's, and will be when our grandchildren celebrate the book's hundredth anniversary."[22]

To Brooks, this characterization seems limited. "Reading through the anniversary commemorations, you feel the gravitational pull of the great Boomer Narcissus. All cultural artifacts have to be interpreted through whatever experiences the Baby Boomer generation is going through at that moment. So a book formerly known for its youthful exuberance now becomes a gloomy middle-aged disillusion."[21] He laments how the book's spirit seems to have been tamed by the professionalism of America today and how it has only survived in parts. The more reckless and youthful parts of the text that gave it its energy are the parts that have "run afoul of the new gentility, the rules laid down by the health experts, childcare experts, guidance counselors, safety advisers, admissions officers, virtuecrats and employers to regulate the lives of the young."[21]He claims that the "ethos" of the book has been lost.

Mary Pannicia Carden feels that traveling was a way for the characters to assert their independence: they "attempt to replace the model of manhood dominant in capitalist America with a model rooted in foundational American ideals of conquest and self-discovery."[23] "Reassigning disempowering elements of patriarchy to female keeping, they attempt to substitute male brotherhood for the nuclear family and to replace the ladder of success with the freedom of the road as primary measures of male identity."[23]

Kerouac's writing style has attracted the attention of critics. On the Road has been considered by Tim Hunt to be a transitional phase between the traditional narrative structure of The Town and the City (1951) and the "wild form" of his later books like Visions of Cody (1972).[24] Kerouac's own explanation of his style in "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" (1953) is that his writing is like the Impressionist painters who sought to create art through direct observation. Matt Theado feels he endeavoured to present a raw version of truth which did not lend itself to the traditional process of revision and rewriting but rather the emotionally charged practice of the spontaneity he pursued.[25] Theado argues that the personal nature of the text helps foster a direct link between Kerouac and the reader; that his casual diction and very relaxed syntax was an intentional attempt to depict events as they happened and to convey all of the energy and emotion of the experiences.[25]

Influence

On the Road has been an influence on various poets, writers, actors and musicians, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, and Hunter S. Thompson.

From journalist Sean O'Hagan, in a 2007 article published in The Guardian:

" 'It changed my life like it changed everyone else's,' Dylan would say many years later. Tom Waits, too, acknowledged its influence, hymning Jack and Neal in a song and calling the Beats "father figures." At least two great American photographers were influenced by Kerouac: Robert Frank, who became his close friend—Kerouac wrote the introduction to Frank's book, The Americans—and Stephen Shore, who set out on an American road trip in the 1970s with Kerouac's book as a guide. It would be hard to imagine Hunter S. Thompson's road novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas had On the Road not laid down the template; likewise, films such as Easy Rider, Paris, Texas, and even Thelma and Louise. "[26]

In his book Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, Ray Manzarek (keyboard player of The Doors) wrote "I suppose if Jack Kerouac had never written On the Road, The Doors would never have existed."

On the Road influenced an entire generation of musicians, poets, and writers including Allen Ginsberg. Because of Ginsberg’s friendship with Kerouac, Ginsberg was written into the novel through the character Carlo Marx. Ginsberg recalled that he was attracted to the beat generation, and Kerouac, because the beats valued “detachment from the existing society,” while at the same time calling for an immediate release from a culture in which the most "freely" accessible items—bodies and ideas—seemed restricted (1). Ginsberg incorporated a sense of freedom of prose and style into his poetry as a result of the influence of Kerouac (1).[27]

Film adaptation

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On the Road (film)

A film adaptation of On the Road had been proposed in 1957 when Jack Kerouac wrote a one-page letter to actor Marlon Brando, suggesting that he play Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would portray Sal Paradise.[28]Brando never responded to the letter; later on Warner Bros. offered $110,000 for the rights to Kerouac's book, but his agent, Sterling Lord, declined it, hoping for a $150,000 deal from Paramount Pictures, which did not occur.[28]

The film rights were bought in 1980 by producer Francis Ford Coppola for $95,000.[29] Coppola tried out several screenwriters, including Michael Herr, Barry Gifford, and novelist Russell Banks, even writing a draft himself with his son Roman, before settling on José Rivera.[30][31] Several different plans were considered: Joel Schumacher as director, with Billy Crudup as Sal Paradise, and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty; then Ethan Hawke as Paradise and Brad Pitt as Moriarty; in 1995, he planned to shoot on black-and-white 16mm film and held auditions with poet Allen Ginsberg in attendance, but all those projects fell through.[31]

After seeing Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Coppola appointed Salles to direct the movie.[32] In preparation for the film, Salles traveled the United States, tracing Kerouac's journey and filming a documentary on the search for On the Road.[33] Sam Riley starred as Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund portrayed Dean Moriarty.[33] Kristen Stewart played Mary Lou.[34] Kirsten Dunst portrayed Camille.[35] The film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012[36] and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.[37]

In 2007, BBC Four aired Russell Brand On the Road, a documentary presented by Russell Brand and Matt Morgan about Kerouac, focusing on On the Road. The documentary American Road, which explores the mystique of the road in US culture and contains an ample section on Kerouac, premiered at the AMFM Festival in California on 14 June 2013, when it won the award for Best Documentary.[38]

Beat Generation

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Beat Generation

While many critics still consider the word "beat" in its literal sense of "tired and beaten down," others, including Kerouac himself promoted the generation more in sense of "beatific" or blissful.[39] Holmes and Kerouac published several articles in popular magazines in an attempt to explain the movement. In the November 16, 1952 New York Times Sunday Magazine, he wrote a piece exposing the faces of the Beat Generation. "[O]ne day [Kerouac] said, 'You know, this is a really beat generation' ... More than mere weariness, it implies the feeling of having been used, of being raw. It involves a sort of nakedness of mind, and ultimately, of soul: a feeling of being reduced to the bedrock of consciousness. In short, it means being undramatically pushed up against the wall of oneself."[40] He distinguishes Beats from the Lost Generation of the 1920s pointing out how the Beats are not lost but how they are searching for answers to all of life's questions. Kerouac's preoccupation with writers like Ernest Hemingway shaped his view of the beat generation. He uses a prose style which he adapted from Hemingway and throughout On the Road he alludes to novels like The Sun Also Rises. "How to live seems much more crucial than why."[40] In many ways, it is a spiritual journey, a quest to find belief, belonging, and meaning in life. Not content with the uniformity promoted by government and consumer culture, the Beats yearned for a deeper, more sensational experience. Holmes expands his attempt to define the generation in a 1958 article in Esquire magazine. This article was able to take more of a look back at the formation of the movement as it was published after On the Road. "It describes the state of mind from which all unessentials have been stripped, leaving it receptive to everything around it, but impatient with trivial obstructions. To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up."[41]

See also

Off the Road (1990 book by Carolyn Cassady)

Love Always, Carolyn

Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road

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