Jack Kerouac writes like Jackson Pollock paints! He promulgated a slash-and-dash style of writing, a jittery style of writing, a caffeinated, alcohol-fused style of writing, that caused his characters to get caught up in their shoelaces and--though On the Road--made them go nowhere in particular no matter how many times they crisscrossed America. On the Road has very little plot and even less character generation of unique speech and idiosyncrasies. It may have been better if