8 Replies to “If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s as a technical writer for the US Defense contractor Raytheon Co.”

1. Scott P says:

   April 7, 2005 at 4:12 pm

   LOL.  Just, like, LOL, man.

2. Sean M. says:

   April 7, 2005 at 4:15 pm

   Burroughs: “I’ve got nothin’.  I mean, aside from this burnt spoon…”

3. Alpha Baboon says:

   April 7, 2005 at 5:10 pm

   Interior, Project MK Ultra Facility (MAJI Security Level Saraphim AA), Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell NM, 1950
   

   Present: Project Director Dr George Estabrooks,
   
   Subject: Jean-Louis Kerouac,
   
   aka Jack Kerouac

   Estabrooks: … again..

   Kerouac: “What do you mean you don’t understand it, man?  ‘Throw some hip into all 6 of your stoic-mouthed screwfaces until each of their steely little flatheads is burrowed tick-like into the newly-dimpled sheetmetal’—what could be plainer than that, Jack?”

   Estabrooks: Excellent ! Thats the personna I’m looking for.. Listen closely Jean-Louis, from now on you will remain in character as ‘Jack’.. Is that clear ?

   Kerouac: Yes sir… I understand…

   Estabrooks: Tomorrow, you and your fellow team members, Cassady, Ginsberg & Burroughs, will leave this facility for good. You will not remember ever having been here. Do you understand your mission objectives ?

   Kerouac: Yes sir… I understand them…

   Estabrooks: Brief back your mission objectives to me please Jean-Louis.

   Kerouac: Working in concert with my team members, we are to spread out across the continental United States and use every means and media available to us to plant the seeds of dissent and counter-culture revolution which will focus on the destruction of traditional American values and social mores as well as introducing mind altering psychoactive drugs into the American mainstream for future use in pacification and control of large segments of the population. All actions should be toward future domination of the United States and ultimately , the World by the Illuminati superstructure, operating as Detachment MJ12, under cover as the generic description of Military Industrial Complex. All contact between our team and project control will be through handlers Peter Orlovsky or Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Additional operatives may be recruited as neccessary.. Agents will be identified internally as ‘hip’ or ‘hipster’.

   Estabrooks: Very good. Return to your room and get a good rest.. Tomorrow ‘Operation Brave New World’ begins in earnest..

   Kerouac: yes sir.. indeed sir… or rather “ Like, I dig it, Cat…”

4. Alpha Baboon says:

   April 7, 2005 at 5:48 pm

   Brevity be damned ! So I blew the 6 line rule all to hell.. so what.. The truth had to be told..

5. Russ from Winterset says:

   April 8, 2005 at 1:30 am

   AB – you forgot the “Why don’t you pass the time with a relaxing game of solitaire” trigger line.

6. Alpha Baboon says:

   April 8, 2005 at 2:12 am

   Russ… That was just in the movie.. In real life Dr Estabrook programmed the subjects to respond to;

   “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep.. and miles to go before I sleep.. ”

   .. wait.. wait.. I understand…
   
   I must leave now..I have someplace I need to go..
   
   ..miles to go before I sleep.. indeed..

7. Russ from Winterset says:

   April 8, 2005 at 12:35 pm

   Alpha, my bad.  Forgot that movies usually bollux up the story for the sake of drama. 

   One question: was Reggie Jackson conditioned to kill Queen Elizabeth II using this particlular method, or did he get an updated version?

8. Alpha Baboon says:

   April 8, 2005 at 2:06 pm

   I’m not sure..Reggie was taken to the Fire Island facility.. Their methods were considered ‘unusual’ at best.. Who knows how they split his psyche…

   Turing word: again

   As in : No! No! Not again..!!

   See ? Theyre watching my communications even now , these many years later…

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