This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat genera…

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future. ✨ First draft of Kerouac's Beat bible, 'On the Road,' arrives in San Francisco, the very city it sanctified by Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. January 18, 2006.
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