Bought the audio tape off the street in Manhattan. I shot the stills in Lowell. The picture of the house at the end of the first segment was the house he was born in. That actaully is the Moody st bridge.
O my - this was always on over the course of my college years - dropout years of ecstasy and the histrionics of that melodrama by which a young person meets the senses, senselessly. I lost that recording, there must be somewhere to find the rest? I recall at the end Jack sings a good bit of Sinatra as he winds off into a neutral stupor.
A great reading!! But ... "recorded in some beatnik's apartment" ? No way! Kerouac recorded it at his home in Northport, Long Island, where he lived with his mother. No beatniks involved.
Doctor Sax is one of my favourite Kerouac novels and this excert is wonderfully dark and woeful. Thanks for the posting!!
Bought the audio tape off the street in Manhattan. I shot the stills in Lowell. The picture of the house at the end of the first segment was the house he was born in. That actaully is the Moody st bridge.
O my - this was always on over the course of my college years - dropout years of ecstasy and the histrionics of that melodrama by which a young person meets the senses, senselessly. I lost that recording, there must be somewhere to find the rest? I recall at the end Jack sings a good bit of Sinatra as he winds off into a neutral stupor.
Thank you for posting this. I like to read Kerouac with his voice in mind like his recitation of on the road. On the Steve Allen Show.
A great reading!! But ... "recorded in some beatnik's apartment" ? No way! Kerouac recorded it at his home in Northport, Long Island, where he lived with his mother. No beatniks involved.
Wonderful!
i agree! the audio is great! do you know if it's available anywhere?
amazing.... i have a copy of this. given to a professor of my sister by some old original beatnik.
Mystique et dérangeant