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TiJean47 (October 11, 2008 at 3:38 pm)
He was forced by the courts to pay, but he did not acknowledge this. It was Jack who pushed for blood tests, 3 times she did not show up,in the end the test was inconclusive and the court would not recognize anything else. She was also pregnant by someone other than her husband at the time she pushed for more money.Her husband at the time wrote a statement on behalf of Jack.
And I agree, his love for his kitties was one of his great attributes.
B00tlegger (October 8, 2008 at 9:32 pm)
He did, however, settle some kind of alimony with Jan's mother, when he privately (not publicly) acknowledged his fatherhood. He kept on paying it until she remarried.
And what's wrong with mourning a cat? Oh, and 'basking in the succes of On the Road'? Sure, he made some money, but the fame he got was for his (actually Neal's) alleged lifestyle, not for his literary accomplishments.
TiJean47 (October 8, 2008 at 5:50 pm)
You just proved my point ...once again. No clue.
DREWJAMES1234 (October 6, 2008 at 6:51 pm)
on the other hand if you think an example of 'best men' is someone who abuses the hospitality of every one in his life that tries to help him, except his obnoxious mother (who he clings to like an infantile) and a cat that he sobs like a baby when it dies, while not even giving acknowledging his own daughter when she's living in poverty and he's basking in the success of On the Road) then maybe you're on safer grounds with his written legacy.
RideMyBMW (April 12, 2008 at 8:29 pm)
"Satori in Paris rocks! And imagine he did it all in one week on one meal, 100 bieres and a gallon of congac!" - Met
No way!!! Wow dude! I got the double binded Satori / Pic edition. Loved Satori in Paris
BTW.
metrodash (March 25, 2008 at 6:21 pm)
Satori in Paris rocks! And imagine he did it all in one week on one meal, 100 bieres and a gallon of congac!
TiJean47 (March 6, 2008 at 3:12 pm)
What you've written is true I think to a point.However Jack was not as un-productive in his later years as most think. He did write one of his best books, Vanity of Duluoz in his last year along with a considerable amount of poetry and on-going articles and a few other books as well. Personally I loved Satori In Paris. It was like an early blog. Very funny.He was certainly capable of brilliance when he really wanted to produce. He never really stopped writing. He couldn't.
schiziodman (March 4, 2008 at 3:30 am)
Kerouac was a brillant creative, energetic writer in his youth, who delved into the deepest recesses of consciousness until he ran up against the abysses of human awareness, at which point he cracked up, took to the bottle, and his work suffered because of it. Sad, but he wasn't the first, or the last writer for that matter, that this happened to.
jorgecardoso3665 (January 27, 2008 at 10:05 am)
to normaseattle:
Paul Auster didn't wrote anything good after Mr. Vertigo. He is one of the most repetitive and boring writers of this era (maybe you too, you look like someone that writes bad poetry and think that is a genius, like almost everybody elese). You're a making a fool of yourself posting comments like that, man. Anyway 79.6% of all comments in youtube are worthless. Stop the comments!
TiJean47 (January 8, 2008 at 9:01 pm)
On the other hand if you get bored reading drivel from people who obviously do not understand the magnitude of Kerouac's vast legacy and brilliance of words,actually read some real Kerouac who was the greatest American writer ever. Just like in his own time,there are people who get IT,and people who are incapable of new thinking. Pretentious? Jack? You really have no clue who Kerouac was at all. He again said it best"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." |
