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Tag: Beat Generation

The hall is blue sky…”

16 Cold Moun­tain is a house With­out beams or walls. The six doors left and right are open The hall is blue sky. The rooms all vacant and vague The east wall beats on the west wall At the cen­ter noth­ing. Bor­row­ers don’t bother me In the cold I build a lit­tle fire When I’m […]

Kerouac’s roar

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in oth­ers but give them life, and not only life, but that great con­scious­ness of life.“ — Jack Ker­ouac The first time that I read On the Road, it took days for the roar to sub­side. The world Ker­ouac painted […]

The peculiar zen of William Burroughs’ objects

via heypeterross.com A bul­let grasshop­per from the writer William Bur­roughs’ home, which has been pre­served in state since his death. A pecu­liar zen momento from a man who lived a life with vio­lence and beauty nat­u­rally war­ring. Pho­tog­ra­pher Peter Ross has 16 strik­ing pho­tos up on his site that he took of Bur­roughs’ objects. Very cool. […]