JACK KEROUAC

Extracto del documental "The Source" Música de Mike Westbrook

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Kerouac
• Beat
• Generation

[serberious]

Man, on the cusp of despair Still night Morning awakes, bright light loneliness still there Imortality,still aware Glass half full Sleep a peacefull lull Reality absent for awhile Oblivion a lovers smile. Words swirling through the mind The storyline that you can`t find The half glass stills my thought The genius that can`t be bought.

[mrkrinkle72]

i think were all drawn to jack because he could express that crowded lonliness all around us go grown alone...

[scienceisknolwedge]

@lucychinn149 The process of breaking the myth i had about the beats and my favorite writers it was by far the most important thing. It made my reading improve and their life suddenly got a meaning, a real one. Even though I know for a fact that some of them lived a rough life and it wasn't easy and fun.

[lucychinn149]

@scienceisknolwedge I understand. I used to romanticize these guys like I did Hemingway, Fitzergerald, his wife Zelda, and Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolfe. The Bloomsbury crowd; the Algonquin crowd that included Harpo Marx, who played croquet on the tops of buildings with the New York with the old New Yorker crowd, including Dorothy Parker, who wrote the great short story, "Will He Call?" And Alice Duer Miller. And Dawn Powell. I had these nights. And days. Raucous laughter.

[scienceisknolwedge]

@lucychinn149 I feel somehow thankful to people that live their lives they way they think it should be liven and then share it to others. For me all of them sound as possibility of life that i can go through, or just enjoy and imagine the people that chose this life.

That's how literature works for me in this sense. And that's why Jack London is my favorite author, i guess.

I got your point now.

[lucychinn149]

@scienceisknolwedge

I don't know if it was worth it. That's not my call. You have probably done as much reading as I have about Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kesey. I took a class taught by Ginsberg at Naropa Institute and he brought in Corso and Burroughs. (And his father.) It was interesting, wistful, and a bit sad. Kerouac was their hero, or Ginsberg's, anyway. They had a wild and wonderful ride as described in Visions of Cody. And as described in all their biographies.

[scienceisknolwedge]

@lucychinn149 it seems your trying to say that it wasn't worth it or he's not a good example for any of us and his life in the end didn't work

[lucychinn149]

@scienceisknolwedge My point is nothing more complex than what I said.

[scienceisknolwedge]

@lucychinn149 so? What's your point? That Borroughs was rougher than him? Make a point along your statement

[lucychinn149]

Jack Kerouac ended up sad, living with his mother, no on-the-road romanticism remaining.

[giuseppe5680]

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[foopedlo]

what can i say in tribute to jack? Blessings, Jack. and only that we shared the same ether in san francisco and that he was dead before i knew that he existed. his prose thrills the senses illuminating that bygone era; whilst he and Ginsberg whom i met at the Fillmore in san francisco (i remember his sweaty palm, his warm sympathetic mien) are enshrined especial-as literary cosmic scribes-they brought forth soulful searching being today mindset etchings for the edification of mankind.