In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid exhi...
In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid exhibition (1968), Tom Wolfe provides a description of Neal Cassady that epitomizes the Beat examination for the moment: Cassady in his movie, called Spe Limit, he is the pair a head whose thing is spe meaning amphetamines, and a unique being whose suit is Spe faster, godamn it, spiraling, jerking, kicking, fibrillating tight up against the 1/30 of a inferior movie-screen barrier of our thinking principles trying to get into Now. (131) Cassady's desire to move faster, to get into the "now" of experience, is what drew Jack Kerouac and Allen
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