Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:37:09 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 10/21 JACK KEROUAC


Daily Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1021.htm


         "Let there be joy in baseball
       again, like in the days when Babe
             Ruth chased an enemy
       sportswriter down the streets of
        Boston & ended up getting drunk
          with him on the waterfront &
       came back the next day munching
        on hotdogs & boomed homeruns
               to the glory of God."

       --Jack Kerouac, Escapade, July, 1959
       http://www.velocity.net/~bb10k/BB10khome.html

OCTOBER 21 --  JACK KEROUAC

1969 -- Beat writer Jack Kerouac, On the Road
no more, dies, age 47, of abdominal bleeding
caused by drinking...


                 REMEMBERING JACK KEROUAC

Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed.
They write the script for the reality  film. Kerouac
opened a million coffee bars & sold a million pairs
of Levis to both  sexes. Woodstock rises from his
pages. Now if writers could get together into a real
tight union, we'd have the world right by the words.
We could write our own universes, & they would all
be as real as a coffee bar or a pair of Levis or a prom
in the Jazz Age. Writers could take over the reality
studio. So they must not be allowed to find
out that they can make it happen. Kerouac understood
this long before I did. Life is a  dream, he said.

       ---from White Fields Press Published in
          Heaven Poster Series #10 Poster includes photo
          "Allen Ginsberg taking photograph of
          William S. Burroughs: Lawrence, Kansas
          1992" courtesy of Allen Ginsberg.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kerouac.htm


"They were Bad Boys, Subterraneans, Dharma Bums,
White Negroes, living in disreputable neighborhoods,
eschewing real jobs, dressing to make a statement,
engaging in "free love," doing drugs, boogying to a
different drummer, taking as their heroes dubious
characters like Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, Baudelaire
& Oscar Wilde, & their own outlaw demimonde
as their literary country...

American science fiction [became] sole surviving heir
through destiny & circumstance to Twain & Miller &
Burroughs & Ginsberg & Kerouac, to Huck Finn &
Billy the Kid & the Dharma Bums, to America's own
secret song of itself."

     --- Norman Spinrad, "Science Fiction & the Beats"

Spinrad's full article at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/normanspinrad/beats.htm
Links to Kerouac, Gillespie, Spinrad, LeGuin at our links page at
Recollection
Books: http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html

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