7 Replies to “If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s working as a South Carolina field hand”

1. Jeff Goldstein says:

   July 19, 2005 at 11:10 pm

   BINGO!

2. Roger Fraley says:

   July 20, 2005 at 2:45 am

   Your literary parody stuff always makes me laugh. I probably couldn’t force my way through On the Road again but I heard a reading of the part where Kerouak’s hitching down to Denver and is excited. Have to admit that I thought that was pretty good.

3. Jeff Goldstein says:

   July 20, 2005 at 2:57 am

   Yeah. It’s better read aloud.

4. Sean M. says:

   July 20, 2005 at 3:06 am

   LeRoi Jones: “Hey, Jack!  Didja notice that none of the Jewish field hands showed up for work today?”

   TW = based, as in “Based on an anti-semitic poem brought to you courtesy of New Jersey taxpayers.”

5. CraigC says:

   July 20, 2005 at 4:45 am

   Burroughs: “Check out that one darky when he bends over to grab some cotton!”

   SW, “looking.”

6. mojo says:

   July 20, 2005 at 1:36 pm

   Darky #1: Say, Rastus… Where’d alla these damn white folks come from?

   Rastus: From they mommas, fool. Now git t’pickin…

   SB: act

7. The Sanity Inspector says:

   July 20, 2005 at 3:18 pm

   Kerouac:…and you can’t even smoke this stuff.

   Erskine Caldwell: Most of the ‘backer fields are in North Carolina, son; up the road yonder.

   Kerouac: Hmm… “On The Tobacco Road” sounds like a good book title!

   Caldwell: Hmm Damned if it don’t, son…

   Turing = based, as in Based on a true literary allusion.

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