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Gilmore Girls (2000)/S2E16 · There's the Rub/Paris on the Beats: On the Road
Gilmore Girls · Season 2, Episode 16, "There's the Rub"

Paris on the Beats: On the Road

Paris Geller (Liza Weil)

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Jess and Paris end up arguing about the Beats, and Paris calls On the Road a tragic waste of paper. Her one word for Jack Kerouac is edit. Jess can't believe she said it, and Paris can't believe anyone needed telling.

Sources: Kerouac and The Beats, The Annotated Gilmore Girls · The Real Rory Book List: Season Two, Oy With the Poodles · Rory Gilmore Reading List, What's Hot Blog
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On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 1957 · novel

Kerouac typed the draft on a roughly 120-foot scroll of taped-together paper in about three weeks in 1951, and Viking didn't publish it until 1957. Paris would point out that the six years were the editing.

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