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- adjective Of or pertaining to Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac (1922-1969), American
beat novelist and poet.
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And not in the Kerouacian sense either, more like the Seussian sense of teaching kids about The Cat in the Hat.
Archive 2009-07-01 Sarah Lenz 2009
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And not in the Kerouacian sense either, more like the Seussian sense of teaching kids about The Cat in the Hat.
On Over-ripening... Sarah Lenz 2009
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More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay on Twitter at twitter. com/wsjcouch We won't harangue you with the usual college-basketball grievances — that the great players wisely bolt early for the NBA; that slippery coaches wander the country like Kerouacian boxcar hoppers; that the general integrity of the sport seems to fit somewhere between kangaroo boxing and a late-night infomercial for an abdominal machine.
Wait, What Happened to February? Jason Gay 2010
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More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay on Twitter at twitter. com/wsjcouch We won't harangue you with the usual college-basketball grievances — that the great players wisely bolt early for the NBA; that slippery coaches wander the country like Kerouacian boxcar hoppers; that the general integrity of the sport seems to fit somewhere between kangaroo boxing and a late-night infomercial for an abdominal machine.
Wait, What Happened to February? Jason Gay 2010
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Some of my favorite writers have felt isolated or were isolated, traveling, wandering Kerouacian souls.
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More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay on Twitter at twitter. com/wsjcouch We won't harangue you with the usual college-basketball grievances — that the great players wisely bolt early for the NBA; that slippery coaches wander the country like Kerouacian boxcar hoppers; that the general integrity of the sport seems to fit somewhere between kangaroo boxing and a late-night infomercial for an abdominal machine.
Wait, What Happened to February? Jason Gay 2010
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This should ensure that my next review sounds like a bad parody of Kerouacian "spontaneous bop prosody."
Working for the Clampdown: The Importance of Word Choice BikeSnobNYC 2009
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First things first: she was beautiful, she was a wreck, she was a writer, she was disowned by Jack, she spent her whole life trying to get a word of acknowledgment from one of the founding fathers of the Beat Generation, whose whole life was a particular Kerouacian Tower of Babel – words and language hell-bent to reach the heavens, to redefine language and spirit in the American landscape.
jan kerouac | hey jack! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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For almost a full month, we satisfied our Kerouacian wanderlust along the vast highways and off the beaten paths that run like veins and arteries through the heartland between Miami and Los Angeles.
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As assisted by wikipedia, as cited, it was spontaneously composed in a Kerouacian riff in the Scalzi blog form, with no cut & paste from any other blog or email.
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