Entitled “This Is the Beat Generation,” it was a declaration of faith in a state of mind that, although new, according to this article, was totally familiar to me: “Everyone I knew,” Holmes wrote, “felt it in one way or another — that bottled eagerness for talk, for joy, for excitement, for sensation, for new truths. Whatever the reason, everyone of my age had a look of impatience and expectation in his eyes that bespoke ungiven love, unreleased ecstasy and the presence of buried worlds within.”
