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“Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny�� and “Beat insurrection�� and all that nonsense; they just wanted some youth movement to grab on to for their own political and social purposes. I had nothing to do with any of that. I was a football player, a scholarship college student, a merchant seaman, a railroad brakeman on road freights, a script synopsizer, a secretary �� And Moriarty-Cassady was an actual cowboy on Dave Uhl’s ranch in New Raymer, Colorado �� What kind of beatnik is that?”[22]”
― Semmelweis, Jack Kerouac and the Decline of the West