Jack Kerouac - On the road

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"On the Road" inspired directors, artists and creatives since its release.

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More than half a century after Kerouac penned that beautiful letter, director Sergi Castella and filmmaker Hector Ferreño transformed the writer’s words into a magnificent cinematic adaptation for Dosnoventa Bikes, with a haunting, Johnny-Cashlike voiceover by James Phillips and beautifully curated music by Pink Floyd and Cash himself. As an intense lover of both bikes and literature, it makes my heart sing in multiple octaves.

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From the movie "On the Road"

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Take a journey inside the world of the beat generation described in "On the Road".

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Thelonious Monk

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Times Square in the '60s

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Oscar Peterson - Night Train

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Dig into the mind of Jack Kerouac and his view of the world.

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The Beat Night Life of New York: Jack Kerouac’s Gotham

"Might as well enjoy it. . . . Greatest city the world has ever seen."

Among Gotham’s many admirers was Jack Kerouac — passionate teenage diarist, admonisher against popular opinion, sage of literature and life.

“New York Scenes” from Kerouac’s 1960 gem Lonesome Traveler (public library) is a kind of narrative emotional cartography of Manhattan, woven of fascinating sketches of Gotham’s vibrant life and cast of characters as recorded in Kerouac’s travel journals, written in his signature style of spontaneous prose, complete with his famous disdain for apostrophes.

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There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away?

Kerouac considers the illusion of the solid “self” as he contemplates the life and death of mountains

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Albert Camus

"The outsider"

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William Burroughs

"Naked lunch - The restored text"

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Allen Ginsberg

"Howl, Kaddish and other poems"