Kerouac had called Kesey "another great American writer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

Ask Kesey if my sword was on the floor when he woke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

I thought of Kesey and Ebrooks and pitied them both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Then I recoiled in dismay as Kesey sat up in my bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Kesey grinned, enjoying being the bearer of big news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

As I'd been speaking, I'd gently pushed Kesey supine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Kesey was building up the fire with bits of kindling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Ask Kesey if he had a strange dream the morning I died.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

"Damned peculiar," Epiny agreed wryly, making Kesey blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

I was reaching for it when Kesey demanded, "What happened?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Perhaps Kesey has some coffee we could share while we talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

He's -- in the play, it's much more like the Kesey character.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2001] Reference

"Maybe, unlike Kesey, he can't step back and get a perspective.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference

"You do know I didn't do any of those things, don't you, Kesey?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Kesey drove around America with his community in an old school bus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference

Kesey had reined in his mount and was watching us in consternation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Kesey stood looking at me and scratching his chest through his shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

I considered taking them to Kesey and begging him to watch over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

We went over to Babs 'house and it was just a day of pure Kesey magic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey] Reference

Meanwhile, my readings and reflections on Kesey had located Rama within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference

On Kesey and the Pranksters, see Stevens, Storming Heaven, 221 – 52. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

Before Spink could reply, Kesey returned with a dripping bucket of cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

I didn't think jera would spell Kesey incorrectly, being in education and all!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Truckin'] Reference

Chicago Tribune reporter Robert Elder pays a visit to the Kesey farm in Oregon.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2006] Reference

Ken Kesey, the writer, once said that "Art is a lie in the service of the truth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lily Tuck talks about her book, The News From Paraguay] Reference

Note 56: On Leary and Kesey, see the latter chapters of Stevens, Storming Heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83] Reference

Kesey, writes Wolfe, was able to step back and realize that he was only hallucinating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference

Kesey went to great lengths to discuss his struggle with grief following this tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Annotated "Broke-down Palace"] Reference

Kesey took us out in Pleasant Hill, Oregon to his farm where he lives with his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey] Reference

Further disinformation -- that picture of a bus, calling it the Ken Kesey prankster bus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Kesey surprised me by quickly deducing that Epiny needed to be alone to nurse her child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Arthur Bradford author of Dogwalker] Reference

I sent them ahead of me into the cabin, asking Kesey to put on some fresh coffee for all of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Ken Kesey, the undisputed King of the Counter Culture who during the early 1960s became America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Christensen: 'Acid Christ': Ken Kesey, Psychedlics And The King Of Counter Culture] Reference

I signed it N.B. and entrusted it to Kesey, then watched him ride away on his broom-tailed horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

Epiny walked up the hill beside me while Kesey drove the cart and his saddle horse trailed behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]