Re: Dharma Bums

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Will Dockery wrote:

General Zod 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 **********

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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Quite a good quote, Doc...!

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Good morning my friend, this is interesting, video from Shaun Crane
coming soon:
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Address for Jack Kerouac house in Saint Petersburg:
5169 10th Ave. North
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https://www.tampabay.com/arts-entertainment/arts/books/2019/10/22/jack-kerouac-found-the-end-of-his-road-in-st-petersburg-50-years-ago/#:~:text=The%20late%20author%20Jack%20Kerouac,Pete%20in%201964.
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