The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer …

Jack Kerouac
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The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown. ✨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Desolation Angels, p.194, Penguin UK
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