e through the barriers of censorship, and a literary movement was born.
             "The Beat Generation" produced icons that run the gamut from Dean Moriarty, the protagonist of Kerouac's novel On the Road, to Dobie Gillis' goateed sidekick Maynard G. Krebs. In the distance between Dean and Maynard we can witness the incredible distortive effect that myth has on reality. These icons represent, to some extent, the difference between the "beats" as they knew themselves and the "beatniks" as they were defined and translated into myth by a Fifties min
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