By Jack Kerouac
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy.
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening.
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house.
4. Be in love with your life.
5. Something that you feel will find its own form.
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow.
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual.
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is.
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest.
12. In traced fixation dreaming upon object before you.
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time.
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monologue.
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye.
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
19. Accept loss forever.
20. Believe in the holy contour of life.
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in your morning.
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language & knowledge.
25. Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures of it.
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form.
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness.
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better.
29. You're a Genius all the time.
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven.
Sage advice. Brings back memories of trying to read A Satori in Paris while I was in basic training for the Army. The other grunts had a really tough time trying to determine what the appeal of such a book could possibly be... (no contraband sketches of nudes, no graphic depictions of interpersonal relations, no fast-paced action--who could possibly bear to read such a thing?)
ReplyDeleteYou're so awesome it's not funny!
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ReplyDeleteLol, well thanks dear!
You're so awesome that not only is it not funny, the merest utterance of it is sufficient to cast a pall upon the world of such complete and total solemnity that the corners of our mouths have scarcely twitched once in all the years since you graced us with your presence! (giggles)
But seriously!
ReplyDeleteAwww... (blushes and stares at his feet)
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