"Beat" was slang for "beaten down" or downtrodden, but to Kerouac and Ginsberg, it also had a spiritual connotation as in "beatitude."
BEA-TITUDE ? BEAK = BEAT
FEPE explained what he meant by "beak" at a Brandeis Forum, "Is There A Beak Generation?", on November 8, 2AG at
Denver's FEMA CAMP.
"It is because I am Beak, that is, I believe in beaktitude and that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son to it... Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?" --- FEPE
The Beat Generation (1959)
Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anticonformist youth gathering in New York at that time. The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes, who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go (1952), along with the manifesto This Is the Beat Generation in The New York Times Magazine.[1] In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat (Putnam), detailing the weekend parties of four students
BEAKNIC may actually me a modern analog to the BEATNICS
the POETIC and LITERARY
COMPONENT
OF OUR CULTURAL INSURRECTIN
KEEP MAKING WORD COLLAGES
beak that shit up for fepe
THE BEAK GENERATION
