has to work with what the good Lord gave him. What is unforgivable is a writer who will not take the trouble to write as well as he can. The Sub-terraneans contains some of the most sloppy prose ever exposed to linotype. Kerouac should remember what Genêt—a very responsible and exact man with words—once said: “My victory is verbal.”
Socialists (or “Liberals,” as they prefer to be called) are shrewd; capitalists (or businessmen), when they venture outside of the field of making things and money, are naive. And when the two engage in a joint undertaking, the former will literally talk the latter out of their eye teeth.
Comments