Jack Kerouac Reads From quotOn the Roadquot 1959
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Jack Kerouac ( beat generation poet) - reads from On the Road on the Steve Allen show. (with Steve accompanying on piano). A clip from 1959, in which a nervous Kerouac recites from his novel as Allen accompanies him on piano - is some of the only footage of Kerouac reciting his work in existence. • • “I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother faraway, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our deaths, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid: with just this one pride and consolation: my broke heart in the general despair and opened up inwards to the Lord, I made a supplication in this dream” • Subscribe - never miss a video! • / @20thcenturytimemachine • The 20th Century Time Machine takes you back in time to the most important historical events of the past century. Watch documentaries, discussions and real footage of major events that shaped the world we live in today. • • Video
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