February 2012
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Sunday meditation: Another View of “On The Road” →
In his latest book, Gerald Nicosia has unlocked the dynamic of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and not a moment too soon. Nicosia, the author of Memory Babe, the definitive Jack Kerouac book, was an advisor to the “On The Road” movie due to be premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival. On The Road, published in 1957, was of course, the book that made Kerouac famous. It was inspired by Jack...
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“You just walk in up a flight and you’re in paradise
A cup of coffee, an easy...”
– Anne Waldman, from Giant Night
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“At that instant we looked into each other’s eyes and there was a kind of...”
– Allen Ginsberg on meeting Peter Orlovsky (via woodysblues)
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“Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“I have dreamt
that all my teeth fell out
but my tongue lived
to tell the tale”
– From “Junkmans Obbligato” in A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via doyouget-it)
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“I went back to Mexico City
and saw Joan Burroughs leaning
forward in a garden...”
– Allen Ginsberg, Dream Record, June 1955
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“My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best...”
– Allen Ginsberg
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“O but what about love? I forget love
not that I am incapable of love...”
– from Marriage by Gregory Corso
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“Following each other
my cats stop
when it thunders.”
– Jack Kerouac
“Moloch who entered my soul early.
Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a...”
– Ginsberg (via bludinmyhair
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“This, then, is the gift the world has given me
(you have given me)
softly the...”
– First Snow, Kerhonkson by Diane di Prima
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“frozen
in the birdbath
A leaf”
– Jack Kerouac
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