 Kerouac would go on for hours, often drunk, to friends and strangers about his method.Allen Ginsberg, initially unimpressed, would later be one of his great proponents, and it was Kerouac's free-flowing prose method that inspired the composition of Ginsberg's poem "Howl".It was at about the time of "The Subterraneans" that he was encouraged by Ginsberg and others to formally explain his style.