Word on Fire's profile of Kerouac's Catholicism, cited for its verbatim quotation of Kerouac's own explanation, from his 1959 Playboy essay Origins of the Beat Generation, that Beat meant beatific.
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PublisherWord on Fire
URLhttps://www.wordonfire.org/articles/the-catholic-kerouac/
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
Word on Fire is a Catholic commentary and ministry site, not a literary-history publication; used here only because it quotes Kerouac's own 1959 Playboy essay verbatim, a primary-source quotation rather than the site's own analysis. Sources
The Catholic Kerouac (Word on Fire)
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