SECOND American Interlude [1950s]
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Sal Paradise...you have Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac's On The Road... BiographyAn unsuccessful aspiring writer who lives with his aunt, after his first divorce Sal meets up with Dean Moriarty, a 'ball of flame' and follows him around the country. The two take a journey on the road for three years, by the end of their trip, Sal has become tired of Dean's antics and is ready to settle down with his new flame Laura.
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Dean Moriarty...his crazy wired-up driver friend, Dean Moriarty, who of course is the great grandson of James Moriarty... BiographyThe great grandson of James Moriarty, Dean grew up in Colorado with a hobo/bum for a father for whom he searches on many occasions. Dean's fanatic personality races from journey to journey and pulls other people along. His various fixations include drugs, women, intellectualism and finally, his father and family life.His marriage and divorce with Camille and Mary Lou and his last affair with Inez are a few examples of his romantic entanglements.
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OBSERVATION Neal Cassady appears in a number of 'beat' books: |
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Doctor Sax...there'd be Doctor Sax, a Kerouac character based on William Burroughs... Biography"Doctor Sax I first saw in his earlier lineaments in the early Catholic childhood of Centralville-deaths, funerals, the shroud of that, the dark figure in the corner when you look at the dead man coffin.." "a maniacal laugh rises from the marshes, Doctor Sax comes striding with his stick, blowing snot out of his nose, casting gleeful crazy glances at frogs in mud puddles... old Doctor Sax here he comes. Rain glints on his nose as well as on the black slouch hat."
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OBSERVATION Jack Kerouac also wrote a screenplay adaptation of Doctor Sax entitled "Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake" which has been relased as a sceenplay with illustrations by Richard Sala accompanied by an audio reading on two CDs. Available from Amazon.com. |
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OBSERVATION Alan Moore in an interview by Tripwire ; "We could carry this on forever. I had a really perverse idea the other day, and I'll probably never get around to doing it, but it would be funny to have one series set in the 1950s where you have Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac's On The Road and his crazy wired-up driver friend, Dean Moriarty, who of course is the great grandson of James Moriarty, or I could say that he is. Then there'd be Doctor Sax, a Kerouac character based on William Burroughs and The Shadow but who owes a lot Fu Manchu. You could set it in Interzone with the Burroughs centipede people appearing all over the place. You could even have a couple of members of the Victorian League still around. Having said that, we might be completely sick of it by the second volume."
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OBSERVATION Alan Moore in an interview by Jess Nevins ; "There’s ways around these things, where, because people do have a great culturally absorbed knowledge of these characters ready to hand, then you don’t have to spell everything out. You can make some feather light references that are not actionable, safe in the knowledge that somebody like you is going to be able to pick them up and explain them to the readership for me." |
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| Images on this page include Jack Kerouac as Sal Paradise, Neal Cassady as Dean Moriarty and William Burroughs as Doctor Sax. |
