On the Road like Jack Kerouac

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Comment by Nathalie on October 22, 2012 at 8:36am

Wish i was on the road again... i rather miss it.

Comment by Patrick on November 16, 2010 at 11:33am

Dear Kerouac Fellows, Going to do the Beijing - Himalaya - India jump this December/January. If there is a Ahab out there that feels the pressure to be on the road and rails again as well - free to join - drop me a message. Patrick

Comment by Patrick on November 16, 2010 at 11:29am

The Kerouac essentials (1 to 30):

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside your own house
Be in love with your life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it
Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You're a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Comment by Patrick on November 16, 2010 at 11:26am

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars, and in the middle, you see the blue center-light pop, and everybody goes ahh..."

Comment by PP on May 22, 2010 at 10:13am

by the way, did somebody read the original version? as far as i know, it was publishes last year

Comment by wendy wu on March 26, 2010 at 9:50am

I love Gary Snyder besides Kerouac...

Comment by Cicy on February 25, 2010 at 9:34pm

on the road！thank u for setting up the group，giving me a home feeling.

Comment by Dylan on February 12, 2010 at 8:47am

Remember me my love, I'm the one you're dreaming of.
Going for a ride, I'll keep you warm inside.
I'm Gonna roll up the sidewalk, I'm gonna tear up the ground.
Comin' round to meet you, The long way round.
Sooner or later, I'll get me off this track.
Gotta do what it is that I do and then I'm coming back.
Got sun in my face, sleeping rough on the road.
I'll tell you all about it, when I get home.
Gonna roll up the sidewalk, I'm gonna tear up the ground.
Comin' round to meet you, The long way round.

Comment by d'MIKS on February 28, 2009 at 11:33am

22

Comment by CBM on February 5, 2009 at 10:30pm

33...;)\

what about you?

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