Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by LandR on Monday November 19, 2018 @04:51AM
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I read and loved "On The Road" but had to give up on Desolation Angels it just read like an incoherent stream of consciousness and felt like such hard going.
Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by brother-seamus on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:32AM
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That was exactly my take as well. Absolutely loved On the road, found Dharma Bums to be too incoherent.
Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by mruts on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:55AM
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I think On the Road and Big Sur are his strongest works.
Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by jddj on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:32AM
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I agree 100%. Reading On The Road first is essential, but Big Sur for me was the best example of that sharp, cynical ennui which for whatever reason was exactly what I was looking for during that period of my life when I read as much Kerouac as I could find.
Great book.
Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by redwood on Monday November 19, 2018 @09:13AM
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I once tried to trek up Matterhorn Peak in the eastern sierra but it was a rainy day and we felt we had to give up the plan. As a result I permanently have an association of sort of a foggy confused state of affairs staring up at the mountain that I can't even see. Apt perhaps
Re:All of Life Is Creation: Jack Kerouac’s Art
by superhuzza on Monday November 19, 2018 @10:33AM
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Huh, I had no idea there was a 'Matterhorn peak' in California. I'd only heard of 'the Matterhorn' in the Alps.
Someone, might have been his Mother, was quoted as saying that nothing he ever painted was good enough to hang in her house.
So I'm a bit gobsmacked that he was actually regarded as a good artist. I can only hope that someone organizes a travelling collection of his work because I want to decide for myself.