Joyce Johnson: "Jack Kerouac tampaknya telah disibukkan dengan pertany...

"Jack Kerouac tampaknya telah disibukkan dengan pertanyaan dualitas sejak usia sangat muda. Dia sepertinya merasa ada lebih dari satu orang di dalam dirinya. Memang dia akan membelok dari ramah, terbuka dan sebagainya kepada seseorang yang marah. Di satu sisi, ada ayunan juga antara diri Amerikanya dan apa yang kemudian dia sebut kakak lelaki Prancis-Amerika-nya. Ada ayunan antara bagian dirinya yang sangat tertutup dan orang yang menjadi dirinya di dunia, harus bertindak dengan cara yang ekstrover."

--- Joyce Johnson

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was more than one person inside him. Indeed he would veer from friendly, open and so on to someone who was angry. In a way, there was a swing also between his American self and what he later called his Franco-American older brother. There was a swing between the deeply introverted part of himself and the person he became out in the world, having to act in an extroverted way.