[lbo-talk] The zen of writing....

JOANNA A. 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Aug 4 12:25:06 PDT 2013


Someone posted some musings of Jack Kerouac on writing on FB.

I noted about 1/3 of them.

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

2. Submissive to everything, open, listening

3. No time for poetry but exactly what is

4. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

5. Accept loss forever

6. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better

7. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

A good deal of truth here. But I am wondering is this largely a response to the intro of zen in the U.S.? Or/and is it a continuation of Whitman?

Anybody know?

Joanna



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