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    Big Sur

    I know I typically stick with fairly technical stuff on this site. But there’s a trailer so I’ll pretend it is a little technical… One of my favorite authors, Jack Kerouac, wrote a number of books. And when he was “just plumb sick and tired…of the whole nerve-wracking scene” he wrote Big Sur. Unlike On the Road or some of his earlier works that look at a new generation with fresh eyes, as something that is exciting and new Big Sur is a book from a haunted man, trying to reconcile these new ideas with his own upbringing and the contradictions that he has seen. In Big Sur, he becomes…