I don’t remember how I came to read “On the Road” but this book really inspired my teenage years and still does. It made me discover the writings of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation.

Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…

Jack Kerouac “On the Road”

Music was also an influential part of the movement :

Charlie Parker – My Old Flame

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