His wayward bus “Sweetheart” is the lineal ancestor of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus “Further,” another conveyance that would backfire into the Milky Way a generation later.
“What a whaling ship and a man of war were for Herman Melville and Jack London, what a stagecoach was for John Ford, a bus was for John Steinbeck. His wayward bus “Sweetheart” is the lineal ancestor of Ken Kesey’s psychedelic bus “Further,” another conveyance that would backfire into the Milky Way a generation later.”
Reference
Steinbeck, John & Scharnhorst, Gary, Introduction (2006, Mar. 26). “The Wayward Bus.” (Penguin Classics) Kindle Edition. Introduction, Loc. 64 of 4807, 1%.
