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Of some light interest - Some of Allen Ginsberg's photos from his heyday are being exhibited in NYC right now, and one photo has an interesting picture w/ this caption: “Jack Kerouac the last time he visited my apartment 704 East 5th Street, N.Y.C., he looked by then like his late father, red-faced corpulent W.C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror, grimacing on D.M.T. I’d brought back from visiting Timothy Leary of Millbrook Psychedelic Community, Fall 1964.” – ALLEN GINSBERG Photo: http://hyperallergic.wpe...2013/03/Kerouac-1964.jpgSalon Article: http://www.salon.com/201...beat_generation_partner/“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.” - David Foster Wallace
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veni, vidi, spici
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he doesnt look very happy, i think he burnt his dose. INHALE, SURVIVE, ADAPT it's all in your mind, but what's your mind??? fool of the year
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3rdI wrote:he doesnt look very happy, i think he burnt his dose. Lol looks like he did in his dacks !! 
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Game Master
Posts: 680 Joined: 22-Mar-2013 Last visit: 13-Mar-2019
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That expression.......looks like hyperspace showed him what a truly horrible writer he was......if only he'd discovered DMT sooner. Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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At least they didn't post a video on youtube. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein
I appreciate your perspective.
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112233 wrote:That expression.......looks like hyperspace showed him what a truly horrible writer he was......if only he'd discovered DMT sooner. ROTFLMFAO Sine experientia nihil sufficienter sciri potest -Roger Bacon
*γνῶθι σεαυτόν*
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that expression looks vaguely familiar for some reason....  heheheh "That expression.......looks like hyperspace showed him what a truly horrible writer he was......if only he'd discovered DMT sooner." lol.. do many others here feel that way? I've never read his work but my old room mate always spoke highly of him.
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 03-Feb-2025 Location: Rocky mountain high
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I think he was a phenomenal writer, one of the greatest American writers of all time. I guess some folks just don't get it. 
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Jack Kerouac is a great writer, it appears to me alot of people dont understand him though. Just got a copy of some of the dharma, its a great book.
I also like Dharma Bums alot!
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Hyperspace has certainly demonstrated how terribly deficient I am. I've had my greatest works taken apart and mocked horribly. Humbling! Jack just may have been shown how "terrible a writer he was"--despite being a "great writer". Hyperspace can be cruel....if he did get his work ripped on by the elves or jesters--I bet he turned around and wrote his best stuff, after integration. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." Albert Einstein
I appreciate your perspective.
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Posts: 680 Joined: 22-Mar-2013 Last visit: 13-Mar-2019
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dreamer042 wrote:I think he was a phenomenal writer, one of the greatest American writers of all time. I guess some folks just don't get it. Oh, I get it; what's not to get? It's simplistic, unedited prose written in a drug frenzy. It's typing, not writing. Just because someone doesn't like something doesn't mean they don't "get it". Give me Tom Robbins, or T.C. Boyle; folks who can actually compose. To each his own. Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 03-Feb-2025 Location: Rocky mountain high
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112233 wrote:Oh, I get it; what's not to get? It's simplistic, unedited prose written in a drug frenzy. It's typing, not writing. Just because someone doesn't like something doesn't mean they don't "get it". Give me Tom Robbins, or T.C. Boyle; folks who can actually compose. To each his own. I agree Tom Robbins is a great writer, not really familiar with the work of T.C. Boyle, I'll add it to my reading list. I think you don't give enough credit to Kerouac who is widely recognized as one of the greatest literary composers of the twentieth century; there is a lot more to Kerouac than On The Road, have you read many of his books?
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I have heard Dharma Bums is better, I'll give him another shot. Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Posts: 5257 Joined: 29-Jul-2009 Last visit: 24-Aug-2024 Location: 🌊
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Yeah dharma bums is the one i've been meaning to read Tom Robbins rocks by the way. He was also a good friend of Terence McKenna's
<Ringworm>hehehe, it's all fun and games till someone loses an "I"
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I think he was a great writer as well. The Dharma Bums and Big Sur are in my opinions his two greatest works. I especially loved Big Sur because it shows you the downside of his life as well. His writing style is something some people might not like, but I noticed that if you get into it, it takes you away like a wave you wanna surf on. I remember the moment that I got on that wave while reading On The Road, it felt like I "got" it, like I learned how to read his books. There's no thinking involved when reading him, don't try to read a sentence twice, just keep going, like he wrote it. That worked for me. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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