Imagine yourself a young radical in the 1960s, and you go on a road trip with some friends. Then you write a book about it. And that's all you do of any significance for the entire remainder of your life. That is the only thing anyone knows about you or remembers about you. "Oh yeah, that guy who wrote about the road trip." It would be depressing enough to drive you off the illegal drugs.
I confuse him with Ginsberg myself.
All of those beat gen guys made it easy. Which is why most of them were alcoholics and drugged up all the time.
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