"... a generation of crazy illuminated hipsters suddenly raising and roaming America, serious, curious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way - a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word beat is spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown-city-night of postwar America - beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction." Jack Kerouac.
woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.
Anything and everything to do with the Beat Generation, a very broad definition embracing the literal and the abstract. Share your beat pilgrimage, proudly show your library, display your beat inspired art, profile today's beat heroes... share photos that make you think and feel beat...
