Number 42: Dr. Sax (June 10, 2011)
Dr. Sax is masked--as we all are now--but Dr. Sax, the amiably eerie, ordering presence in Jack Kerouac's 1959 novel, has been masked all through the 1940s, like his fictional and cinematic forerunner, The Shadow. Dr. Sax is the essence of boyhood mysterium: "His laughter," writes Kerouac, "is hidden in the black hoods of the darkness where you can suck him up with air, the glee of the night in kids is a message from the dark...."
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