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Monday, December 21, 2009

Kerouac Paragraph

Opened up a copy of Desolation Angels that is lying around the dungeon den today and right towards the beginning there were some smooth sentences that make a whole lotta sense. JK spends 70 days alone working as a mountain lookout in northwest Washington on Desolation Peak. Towards the end of his solitude he writes:

Hold together, Jack, pass through everything, and everything is one dream, one appearance, one flash, one sad eye, one crystal lucid mystery, one word -Hold still, man, regain your love of life and go down from this mountain and simply be---be---be the infinite fertilities of the one mind of infinity, make no comments complaints, criticisms, appraisals, avowals, sayings, shooting stars of thought, just flow, flow, be you all, be what it is, it is only what it always is---Hope is a word like a snow-drift--- This is the Great Knowing, this is the Awakening, this is Voidness--- So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry--- Prunes, prune, eat your prunes--- And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors, it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void--

He experienced that revelation in 1957. I am living that slowwwwwwww awakening in 2009. I guess I need to find the top of a mountain and hang out for a bit.

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