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This is the demolition of Satori in Paris, by Jack Kerouac. This is the last installment. Parts
one , two , and three have already seen the light of day. Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library” . They were taken in 1965, the year “Satori” took place.
30- Mr. K goes to a restaurant, to meet Mr. Lebris (spell check suggestions: Debris, Celebrity, Bristle), who is a distant old country relative. There are doubts, though, as Mr. K suspects that his host is Jewish. This seems to be so old country, looking at a man closely to see if he is a Jew. In modern day America, most people are so ate up by the black white controversy, there is no emotion left for antisemitism The last great controversy was a splatter film by Mel Gibson, and the charges of anti antisemitism were really a part of the publicity campaign for the movie. Fundamentalism in any faith is just another way the ego causes separation and violence between us.
31- Ulyssee Lebris and Mr. K have a conversation, which starts with one asking the other for a glass of cognac. Drunks are so boring. They think they are clever, but judgement goes away quickly. It is a common complaint of the recovered that life seems dull without booze. Mr. K never had that problem. Nothing more beautiful than a confident girl who doesn’t pretend to be something she’s not, down to earth, & lets no guy define who she is.
32- The two Lebris dudes give up on conversation, and look at a family chart. PG was spelling the name Libris, and then saw that he was mistaken. This is not something that spell check will do, the writer needs to do it manually. The business of waving a mouse over a mistaken letter, and replacing it with the correct vowel, is a marvel of technology that is taken for granted. Some people are like clouds, when they disappear, it’s a brighter day. The difference is, these useless people never create rain. Urine does not count, except in beer return facilities.
33- The conversation, and cognac drinking, continues. Maybe we need to return to 2011 for a minute. There is a nutcase preacher in Florida. He likes to burn the Quran, and send the image over the internet to the Muslim world. Now, these people have plenty of reasons to be upset with the USA, like our having 100k troops in country killing women and children. As Juan Cole sees it, that is the real cause of the riots in Afghanistan. The people are upset at the killing, and express this anger over a book burning. It is a strange world.
34-Mr. K leaves the restaurant, totes his 70# suitcase to the train station, only to miss the train to Paris by three minutes. He now has 8 hours to kill, and he does not want to take a nap where he can be robbed. He talks to a cabdrivers, who teaches him not to worry if he is big and fat, to be big and fat. That sort of self acceptance would doom an important sector of the american economy. Meanwhile, Atlanta digs out from a spring storm. The leaf blower happy neighbor had a tree fall against his house. He is out there with a chain saw, which may satisfy his need to make noise.
35- A train has left Brest with Mr. K on board. A man in uniform tells him to take his feet off of a seat. The bell goes off, telling PG that he has an email. The message…”It was announced today that Buckwheat, of Our Gang fame has converted to The Muslim faith and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat.” You can’t become a better person without making mistakes. G0, do something really stupid.
36- The morning after the train ride, and Mr. K arrives in Paris. In 1979, at about this time of year, PG rode a trailways bus from Atlanta to San Francisco. One night, the last thing he saw was the a sign, Los Angeles 378. When he woke up, the bus was pulling into a station downtown. It was very early. PG got something to eat out of a machine, and tore a piece off a styrofoam cup to make a spoon. There was a three hour layover until the next bus to San Francisco. PG got an old lady to watch his bags, and went out into the morning to explore downtown Los Angeles. He had never seen so many degenerates.
37- During the night ride, a dirty old man got on the train with a young girl. They squabbled loudly until she got to sleep in her own seat. The awkward moment when you don’t know how to continue a conversation with someone you care about and you just sound really boring Best friends see the hurt in your eyes while everyone else is fooled by your smile. If Mr. K had the internet to flesh out his work, he wouldn’t have had to type so hard.
38- This is the last chapter. This is either where Mr. K achieves satori, or we find out that we have been fooled for 118 pages. PG is going to take his coffee, sit on the front porch with the sunshine and pollen, and find out. Well, fooled again. The cabdriver stops for a beer with Mr. K, and reminds him that he has children to support. It is not known whether Mr. K gave him more of a tip after the speech. In the corner of the last page is the note, I-75. This is an interstate highway, that runs from the top of Michigan to the bottom of Florida. It goes next to the big chicken, three miles otp. There are five blank pages after the end of this story.