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Ooh, these guys are so daring! They're dismissive of the bourgeoisie! They do DIRTY things! They write complex, stream of consciousness descriptions when they're cracked out! They're modest, yet condescending!
Man, these guys are so out there, they should have a bitchin' name. Let's call them "Beat." They get their own genre; plus it sounds really cool 'n that.
Kerouac = drugged out, financially strapped American on a road trip, who drank himself to death with cheap booze.
It's been done before, and it will be done again a million times over. It's a wonder what posthomous PR will do for a person.
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