Re: Kerouac's house
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Fri, 29 May 1998 01:05:03 -0400
> After last month's discussion, I've been reading up on Kerouac, and I
> found out that I live fairly close to his final residence in St. Pete.
> Today I went over there to check it out, and was disappointed...I mean,
> here I was in front of Kerouac's HOUSE and it was the most totally
> average looking place and I felt absolutely NOTHING......I don't know
> what I thought I'd feel, but I thought I'd feel SOMETHING!!!!!
I just came back home after spending a month in St. Petersburg, and went to
school in Tampa, but I never did more than carelessly think about looking
for Kerouac's house. I sort of thought it would be sad, especially (given
my vampire hours) the image I had of myself sitting in a car in the dark,
looking at a house where a dead writer had lived.
I believe some of our other subscribers are in the Tampa/St. Pete area.
Have any of you made a pilgrimage of this sort? If so, what did you find
in your feelings?
--tim