Anais Nin read Jack Kerouac's On the Road in the summer of 1957 and loved the lyrical passages, alive with primitive beauty. She then meets him in the winter of 1957, but unfortunately, he was drunk and blubbering, and she found it impossible to talk with him because of her incurable prejudice against drunks. "A failed meeting because I am not a drinking partner," she says.
She has often felt alienated because she doesn't believe in drugs or alcohol, although she did try LSD under the supervision of a doctor, and she does drink limited quantities of alcohol. Anais does seem to understand the need some people have of drugs and alcohol because they need these substances to reach a place, a state, which she can reach on her own through dreaming and awakening her senses.
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