Okay, so how about that Kerouac guy, eh? Did he ever meet Woody, do you think? Or read "Bound For Glory"? I don't recall ever hearing of a Guthrie/Kerouac connection, yet Woody's prose style eerily prefigures Jack's, and Woody's "peripatetic bard" life-style was exactly what Jack was to emulate. Furthermore, they share the same grand themes of the full-to-bursting potential of America and the saint-like sufferings of the ordinary American "fellahin".