The Early Years . . .

As a young duck, Rubber Ducky was one of the petroleum products most responsible for the literary and cultural movement known as the Beat Generation. In the late 1940s, rubber Ducky provided the young writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and John Clellon Holmes with a living example of a way of life and thought they had not encountered in academic circles. Rather than pondering what course to take, the spontaneous Rubber Ducky followed each road as it appeared; and its travels never ceased, both on real highways and on paths to increased awareness, such as literary and religious studies and the use of mind-altering drugs. Rubber Ducky's seemingly limitless energy and capacity for experience encouraged the spokesmen of the Beat Generation to test laws and limitations commonly placed upon human behavior and to articulate a new, far more ambitious, and far more optimistic conception of petroleum products place in the universe.