jack kerouc

[Soul Daddy]

I can understand if someone hasn't read Kerouac, but to genuinely not recognize the name is to be oblivious.

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Why do people always equate intelligence with literary savvy?

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I can understand if someone hasn't read Kerouac, but to genuinely not recognize the name is to be oblivious.

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Oblivious to what? Middle of the road 20th century American literary figures? Go ask all of the "smart" people you know if they are familiar with Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, etc etc etc. You'll draw just as many blanks as you would with Kerouac, and they are FAR better writers.

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I can understand if someone hasn't read Kerouac, but to genuinely not recognize the name is to be oblivious.

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Oblivious to what? Middle of the road 20th century American literary figures? Go ask all of the "smart" people you know if they are familiar with Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth, etc etc etc. You'll draw just as many blanks as you would with Kerouac, and they are FAR better writers.

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very true.....
alot of my friends have read on the road, but would be clueless as to who wrote entropy, which is not even close to the best of those writers writings

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That's not writing, that's typing.

- Truman Capote

[MicroBob]

Go ask them if they have seen Psycho, North by Northwest and Vertigo.

There's LOTS of stuff out there that lots of eduated but ignorant Americans aren't the least bit familir with and they simply don't care.

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Why do people always equate intelligence with literary savvy?

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i think its because very few people are well read.
I tend to think the most people in my math classes are genius, because i know very little about math.
Same can be sai for my art teachers, they know loads about art, and thats about it....until i realized that i thought they were geniuses.

I have read more than all but a handful of people i have ever met, and i currently have a c in 1301 algerbra.
My sister reads nancy drew and is like that dude off numbers when it comes to math. Whos smarter ?
obviously me....lit is so much more important ...lol

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Why do people always equate intelligence with literary savvy?

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Knowing Kerouac's name = literary savvy?

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Go ask them if they have seen Psycho, North by Northwest and Vertigo.

There's LOTS of stuff out there that lots of eduated but ignorant Americans aren't the least bit familir with and they simply don't care.

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No, go ask them if they've heard of Psycho, NBW, or Vertigo.

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I've never read any of his stuff, but I have a general idea of who he was.

To be honest, I think of the 10000 Maniacs song 'Hey Jack Kerouac' when I hear his name.