Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Here’s to You, Jack Kerouac, on the 44th Anniversary of Your Release . . .

. . .
from the wheel of the quivering meat conception and the granting of your wish:
"The wheel of the quivering meat conception . . . . . . I wish I was free of that
slaving meat wheel and safe in heaven dead."  (Mexico City Blues, 1959,
211th Chorus).

Kerouac's Mexico

Review of  Kill Your Darlings

The Mexican Girl, Bea Franco, Finally Found

In 1955, The Paris Review paid a struggling Jack Kerouac fifty dollars for an excerpt from a then unpublished manuscript. The excerpt appeared as a short story titled “The Mexican Girl” and, after much acclaim, was picked up a year later by Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories. Due in large part to the success of “The Mexican Girl,” On the Road was soon accepted by Viking Press; the full novel was published in 1957. (reference)

Here is an audio clip of "The Mexican Girl."  Meanwhile, the Mexican Girl, Bea Franco, has been found, written up, and assumes her place in the Beat pantheon.


Bea Franco Mexican Girl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lest we forget, however, "Pretty girls make graves." (The Dharma Bums)


Jack's grave

 

 


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