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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | [[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Literature]] | ||
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[[File:LiveInBoston.png| thumb | right | Image of Jack Kerouac used in The Queen Is Dead deluxe edition, 2017]] | [[File:LiveInBoston.png| thumb | right | Image of Jack Kerouac used in The Queen Is Dead deluxe edition, 2017]] | ||
==Relevance== | ==Relevance== | ||
In Kerouac's [[The Dharma Bums]] (1958), the character Ray Smith recounts: | In Kerouac's [[The Dharma Bums]] (1958), the character Ray Smith recounts: | ||
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"Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico. | "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico. | ||
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Which [[Simon Goddard]] asserts as an influence on The Smiths' [[Pretty Girls Make Graves]] | Which [[Simon Goddard]] asserts as an influence on The Smiths' [[Pretty Girls Make Graves]]. | ||
His image alongside [[Neal Cassady]] was used as a backdrop for the live debut of the song "Kerouac's Crack" (September 28, 2022). | |||
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