................................On the Road is an ugly beautiful song. Kerouac figured out how to touch the root shakra of his soul through some automatic writing techniques, getting close to how the soul speaks to itself. With a bunch of editing from travel notebooks he created “On the Road” in 1957. I would recommend On the Road to people who need to get out of their own head. Just don’t fetishize him. Learn automatic writing…it may be one of the best lessons for a blocked writer.
