>But Kerouac is also an example of a guy getting a lot worse. When
>he was young, literally all his best friends were gay. When he was
>old, the anti-gay screeds in his journals were just poisonous.
William Burroughs, one of those gay friends, says Kerouac didn't change or get worse, but that he was always conservative.
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