Sublime

In 1952, while reporting a burglary to the police, he naively revealed that he was having a homosexual relationship. The police felt they had no option but to arrest and charge him with “Gross Indecency contrary to Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.” The newspapers reported the subsequent trial and conviction, and Turing was publicl

Trout doesn’t really exist. He has been my alter ego in several of my other novels. But most of what I have chosen to preserve from Timequake One has to do with his adventures and opinions. I have salvaged a few of the thousands of stories he wrote between 1931, when he was fourteen, and 2001, when he died at the age of eighty-four.

C’est ainsi que Cassady prend d’emblée dans son esprit une place de « marginal intégral », incarnation de l’individu sans concession, personnage qui ne peut que plaire à Kerouac, le déplacé-déclassé. « Merde pour les Russes, merde pour les Américains, merde à tous. Je vais vivre ma vie de feignant et de bon à rien, un point c’est tout », écrit-il d