week 2/ On the Road

The thing I find the most facinating about reading "On the Road", is not that his writting style is unique for the time period--which it is; Kerouac broke boundaries by writting in stream of concious, but I'll write about that later--it's that we read Allen Ginsberg's poetry and Corso's poetry and now we're reading a novel about their lives. It's really neat to get the inside scoop on what their lives were like. It gives a more personal look to the writting styles and almost violent catharsis of the beat poetry. This background check-up on the authors puts in place the day to day life that they lead. I can really understand now the why behind their "live for today" theory; in fact "On the Road" demonstrates that theory very well. I would never have or could possibly ever do the things that they did. It seems that society has become so much more dangerous. I'm really enjoying this book and I look foward to the ending!