SALINGER The Official Book

SALINGER The Official Book
DAVID SHIELDS & SHANE SALERNO

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

JACK KEROUAC & L. RON HUBBARD

Two things that Jack K. and L. Ron had in common was their special typing methods: Both used long rolls of paper to type at their leisure and crank-out speed, their manuscripts. L. Ron had so many ideas and plots for his fiction, not to mention his other writings, that he had to 'speed-up' something that all of us need to do as we 'age','grow older' etc. rather than slow down and take life easy. This latter view and belief is fine for young people who have all the time in the world. Both Jack K. and L. Ron knew they had little time to accomplish all they wanted or had set out to do. Jack K. had so many thoughts that using the standard,single sheet of paper on the mechanical typewriters of the time(which I still prefer over the new computer types) took too much time and led to loss of thought not to mention rhythm!