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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Dharma Bums
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 04:42:47 +0000
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Zod wrote:
>
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>> General Zod wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > > > > > > > I consider myself a latter day Dharma Bum............
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dharma_Bums
>
>>> > > > > > > > > ***************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.
>>> > > > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > > > 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.'
>>> > > > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > > > 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]
>>> > > > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > > > 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.
>>> > > > > > > > >
>>> > > > > > > > > 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**********
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > Where does the "dharma" come into your existence
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_Idlet#Later_years
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > 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]
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > 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]
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > 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.
>>> > > > > >
>>> > > > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=++
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > The above description fits Zod quite closely.
>>> > > >
>>> >
>>> > *************************
>>> > ****** 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:
>>>
>>> “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
>
>> Quite a good quote, Doc...!
>
> Good morning my friend, this is interesting, video from Shaun Crane
> coming soon:
>
> Address for Jack Kerouac house in Saint Petersburg:
> 5169 10th Ave. North
>
> 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.
>
> ...

Fascinating information, Zod.