Chamblee54

On this day four years ago, PG put up a post about Jack Kerouac. It was inspired by this appreciation at kikoshouse. Kikos, btw, is still producing, unlike many of the 2008 blogs.
00. Allen Ginsberg asked Mr. Kerouac to define the essentials of “Spontaneous Prose.”
01. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
02. Submissive to everything, open, listening
03. Try never get drunk outside your own house
04. Be in love with your life
05. Something that you feel will find its own form
06. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
07. Blow as deep as you want to blow
08. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
09. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced 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 monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yrself
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 yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr 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
While researching this post, PG stumbled onto an interview of Jack Kerouac. The interview was conducted by Ben Hecht, who is mostly forgotten today, but was a character. Mr. Kerouac thinks that President Eisenhower is a smart, friendly man. He probably did not play golf with him.
At 1:30 of part two, Mr. Hecht mentions that Mr. Kerouac, and his pals, particularly Mr. Ginsberg, have an “affinity for negroes”. “Negroes have a lot of fun”, they are “full of glee”. While they no doubt meant well by this, many today would consider this kind of talk racist.
Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
Chamblee54 posted a four part breakdown of Satori in Paris, by Jack Kerouac.