Music to forget the Brain Beat (Kerouac)

'Because all these serious faces’ll drive you mad, the only meaning is without meaning– Music blends with the heartbeat universe and we forget the brain beat' (Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, 1965)


 
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
- photo from when he joined the Naval Reserve in 1943

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