![]() Instead, he felt ghoulish, stung by William S. ![]() On the fly, he composed another in French, before brooding into the pages of a notebook diary that he was looking for reasons to be a good man. In January 1957, Jack Kerouac sat in the rocking seat of a train composing a haiku as it rolled along from Orlando, Florida to New York City. combed some unpublished diaries Kerouac kept in Morocco, to capture the real mindset of the ‘King of the Beats’ on the verge of fame. That regimen fell apart in Tangier, which turned into a nightmarish cycle of excess and illness. His mind awash in guilt and self-doubt, and his body with DT’s, he tried to concentrate on his Buddhistic disciplines and abstain from all temptations. 1957, Jack Kerouac spent two drunken weeks in NYC before hopping a freighter to Tangier, to visit and type manuscripts for William S. ![]() After hand-delivering the final manuscript of On the Road to Viking Press in Jan. ![]()
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