“Tarnished Galahad: The Prose and Pranks of Ken Kesey”
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Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
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culture · American writer and countercultural figure (1935–2001) · writer · novelist · essayist · children's writer · amateur wrestler · also Ken Kesey, Ken E. Kesey, Kenneth Kesey, O. U. Levon, Kenneth Elton Kesey, Ken Elton Kesey
Born 17 September 1935 · Died 10 November 2001 · Q244390
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2026· 8 entries
“The sense of communication in this country has damn near atrophied. But we found as we went along it got easier to make contact with people. If people could just understand it is possible to be different without being a threat.”
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Lookout Santa Cruz: After almost six decades on the farm, Ken Kesey’s Furthur bus leaves Oregon
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KEZI: Ken Kesey’s “Furthur” Bus On the Road Again
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KCBY: Ken Kesey's original 'Furthur' bus leaves Oregon for first time in decades
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The Register-Guard: Ken Kesey's Further bus leaving Eugene for the last time - The Register-Guard
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Public attention spiked: 3,553 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.4× the usual 817, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Sixty years ago, Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus symbolized San Francisco’s counterculture revolution, the embrace of psychedelic drugs and the live-out-loud, love-your-neighbor ethos for which the era is remembered. With the U.S. once again facing war, polar” (facebook.com).
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facebook.com: Sixty years ago, Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus symbolized San Francisco’s counterculture revolution, the embrace of psychedelic drugs and the live-out-loud, love-your-neighbor ethos for which the era is remembered. With the U.S. once again facing war, polar
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2021· 2 entries
The Cheat Sheet: ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’: Despite Winning 5 Oscars, Author Ken Kesey Never Watched the Adaptation
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Ken Kesey and Complete Book Reviews
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2011· 2 entries
The Film Stage: [Review] Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
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Women's Wear Daily: New Ken Kesey Documentary Gets Premiere 47 Years in the Making
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2001· 5 entries
Died 2001-11-10.
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Kesey had surgery at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene on his liver to remove a tumor; he did not recover and died of complications several weeks later on November 10 at age 66
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“(…) jeśli człowiek nie ma się na baczności, ludzie zmuszą go do robienia tego, czego chcą, albo – jeśli jest uparty – do robienia czegoś wręcz odwrotnego, po prostu im na złość”
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“Za co cię wsadzili? – pyta.– Trawa. (…)– To za co cię wsadzili?– Posiadanie oraz uprawę.– Czy to nie hańba – wsadzać ludzi z powodu tego, co podarował Pan Bóg? Gdyby chciał, nigdy nie stworzyłby nasion. Ile ci wlepili?– Sześć miesięcy, pięćset dolców grzywny, trzy lata ograniczenia praw.– Czy to nie jedno wielkie gówno?”
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“We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.”
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1997· 2 entries
Kesey and his Pranksters attended a Phish concert in Darien Lake, New York
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Health problems began to take a toll on Kesey, starting with a stroke
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1994· 1 entry
Toured with members of the Merry Pranksters, performing a musical play he wrote about the millennium called Twister: A Ritual Reality
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1992· 1 entry
Reunited with the Merry Pranksters and began publishing works on the Internet until ill health (including a stroke) curtailed his activities
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1988· 1 entry
Kesey donated $33,395 toward the purchase of a proper bus for the school's wrestling team
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1984· 1 entry
Kesey's 20-year-old son Jed, a wrestler for the University of Oregon, suffered severe head injuries on the way to Pullman, Washington, when the team's loaned van crashed after sliding off an icy highway
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1972· 1 entry
Was the first film shown by the new television network HBO, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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1966· 2 entries
Kesey was sentenced to six months at the San Mateo County jail in Redwood City, California
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Sunshine was raised by Adams and her stepfather, Jerry Garcia
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1965· 2 entries
Kesey was arrested in La Honda for marijuana possession
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After being arrested for marijuana possession and faking suicide, Kesey was imprisoned for five months
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1964· 1 entry
“Two Novelists of the Absurd: Heller and Kesey”
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1962· 1 entry
The novel was an immediate success; in 1963, it was adapted into a successful stage play by Dale Wasserman, and in 1975, Miloš Forman directed a screen adaptation, which won the "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, B
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1960· 1 entry
After completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later
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1957· 3 entries
“focused on the exploitation of college athletes by telling the tale of a football lineman who was having second thoughts about the game”
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Kesey wrote End of Autumn; according to Rick Dogson, the novel "focused on the exploitation of college athletes by telling the tale of a football lineman who was having second thoughts about the game"
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Kesey was second in his weight class at the Pacific Coast intercollegiate competition
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1956· 1 entry
Kesey eloped with his high-school sweetheart, Oregon State College student Norma "Faye" Haxby, whom he had met in seventh grade
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1935· 2 entries
Born 1935-09-17.
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In La Junta, Colorado, to dairy farmers Geneva (née Smith) and Frederick A
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