The Independent - London, November 12th, 2001
KEN KESEY was the bridge between the beats and the hippies. In 1964, the 29-year-old writer, already acclaimed for his debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, crossed America with a bunch of proto-hippies calling themselves the Merry Pranksters in a psychedelic bus named "Further", staging LSD-fuelled "happenings" for startled mid-westerners.
Kesey was Chief Prankster. The driver of the bus was the legendary Neal Cassady, the real-life Dean Moriarty of Jack Kerouac's 1957 beat classic On The Road, who had criss-crossed America by car and on freight trains throughout the Fifties. But the...
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