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                    "Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around 
                    the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind 
                    again. 
                     
                    I been away a long time." 
                     
                    - from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 
                     
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            Ken 
              Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado on September 17, 1935. 
              As a cultural entity, Kesey falls somewhere between the Beats of 
              the 50's and the Hippies of the 60's. His literary voice is admittedly 
              borrowed from Jack Kerouac - he even went so far as to go on the 
              road with Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady. 
              He was also the star of Tom Wolfe's The Electiric Kool-Aid Acid 
              Test and the leader of the Merry Pranksters who launched a great 
              trip across America in a bus named Furthur. | 
             
              
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