> 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?
>
Not really, but the Beats' affinity for zen always struck me as superficial. There's an American tendency to scrape the anti-analytical parts of zen to justify our dominant modes of thought.
-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."