Re: Dharma Bums

On Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 5:19:03 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:

On Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 5:01:53 PM UTC-5, Hieronymous Corey
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On Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 4:57:36 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
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I consider myself a latter day Dharma

Bum.............

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dharma_Bums
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***************The character Japhy drives Ray

Smith's story, whose penchant for simplicity and Zen Buddhism influenced
Kerouac on the eve of the sudden and unpredicted success of On the Road.
The action shifts between the events of Smith and Ryder's "city life,"
such as three-day parties and enactments of the Buddhist "Yab-Yum"
rituals, to the sublime and peaceful imagery where Kerouac seeks a type
of transcendence. The novel concludes with a change in narrative style,
with Kerouac working alone as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak
(adjacent to Hozomeen Mountain), in what would soon be declared North
Cascades National Park (see also Kerouac's novel Desolation Angels). His
summer on Desolation Peak was desperately lonely. "Many's the time I
thought I'd die of boredom or jump off the mountain," he wrote in
''Desolation Angels.''[2] Yet in the more eloquent ''Dharma Bums,"
Kerouac described the experience in elegiac prose.

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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial

vapor appeared, and I said 'God, I love you' and looked up to the sky
and really meant it. 'I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of
us all, one way or the other.'

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The blend of narrative with prose-poetry

places The Dharma Bums at a critical juncture foreshadowing the
consciousness-probing works of several authors in the 1960s such as
Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey.[citation needed]

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One episode in the book features Smith, Ryder,

and Henry Morley (based on real-life friend John Montgomery) climbing
Matterhorn Peak in California. It relates Kerouac's introduction to this
type of mountaineering and inspired him to spend the following summer as
a fire lookout for the United States Forest Service on Desolation Peak
in Washington.

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The novel also gives an account of the

legendary 1955 Six Gallery reading, where Allen Ginsberg gave a debut
presentation of his poem "Howl" (changed to "Wail" in the book). At the
event, other authors including Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure,
and Philip Whalen also performed**********

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Where does the "dharma" come into your existence

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_Idlet#Later_years

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Thomas met his fourth wife, the poet Philomene Long

in 1983 at a poetry reading.[5] The couple were inseparable in his last
years, and Thomas dedicated his final poems to her.[6]

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He said she "resurrected him." They lived together

on the edge of American society, maintaining a lifestyle of "living
poor" based on the ancient Zen recluse poets. "I would feel
uncomfortable and irritable living any other way. I have Philomene, a
pen, a pad, shirt and pants.. If you start wanting more, it fills you
up, leading to a poverty of the heart and mind."[citation needed]

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Thomas spent the sunset days of his life in his

house in Venice Beach and reading while sitting under a sweet gum tree
on the grounds of the Zen Center of Los Angeles.

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The above description fits Zod quite closely.

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****** Dharma is a concept of moral living **********

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Learn what it means to be a Dharma Bum before you attempt to

correct Zod, who is actually living the life:

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“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in

the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping,
running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of
the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian
virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters.
And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just
use good old railroad gloves, that's all.” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma
Bums

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"Living the life"?

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Living a Dharma Bum life:
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“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the

temples this world pulls.” -Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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The Dharma Bums is a novel, a work of fiction, and Jack
Kerouac was an alcoholic writer, not a Dharma Bum.

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The poet Gary Snyder was the model for a Dharma Bum.

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The book is a FICTIONALIZED account

No shit, Sherlock.

You do understand what FICTION is, don’t you?
Dharma Bums is a work of FICTION. There are
no REAL Dharma Bums, and there never were.

Yes there were, as there is an account of groups of young people
appearing at Kerouac's Florida home calling themselves "Dharma Bums".
I've read this in Kerouac biographies, and I'm not sure if this has gone
online yet or not... either way, it just has, right here.

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Yes, I read that somewhere, I shall do a search....